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CONTEXT Much like an oil spill, rat spills can wreak havoc on delicate ecosystems and are a major problem for many far-flung islands. One of Alaska's western Aleutians was even named Rat Island after it was overrun by the critters following a shipwreck in the 1780s...
USAGE Because an invasion of rodents can devastate populations of ground-nesting seabirds, wildlife-refuge managers in Alaska have developed emergency-response plans to deal with rat spills. The Alaska board of game recently passed strict regulations requiring shippers to exterminate any rodents found on their vessels. Meanwhile, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working on plans to eradicate the rats on Rat Island without harming the few native species that have survived the onslaught...
...groupmates looked at me, distant but curious. There was the ripped marathon runner, the guy who described his backyard as a “wilderness” he tamed for fun, and the girl who had spent her summer on some sort of death march-esque wilderness experience in Alaska. Then there was me, wearing a pink bandana. As I strapped on my rented backpack on the first day, I tried to push away memories of wandering around the land in New Mexico, searching for any point in the landscape that differentiated itself from the rest, and to focus...
...Sundquist’s Mather suite and brought along members of the Harvard Glee Club, who immersed the winners in song while others doused them with champagne. Sarafa said the first thing he would do as vice president-elect was to keep the promise he made to the Alaska Klub and swim in the Polar Bear Plunge this past Saturday morning. Sundquist said he would “hopefully start going back to class soon,” adding that he and Sarafa would soon sit down to go over plans for their term, which begins next semester. Fellow candidate...
...representatives to discuss the coming year.But, with the election just ended, the president-elect and his second-in-command have already had an opportunity to make good on a campaign promise—taking to the snow-sprinkled banks of the Charles River to join the members of the Alaska Klub for an 8 a.m. plunge on Saturday.On a morning where the real-feel temperature was 22 degrees, according to the Weather Channel, the newly elected leaders of the College’s student government proved their mettle, said Alaska Klub Co-President Robert J. Gage...