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...number of ice bears dwindled, and there was worldwide concern that the animal might be hunted to extinction. Today the bears' recovery is one of the success stories of conservation. Worldwide, polar bears now number as least 20,000, all of which are protected by a 1976 international agreement. Alaska has 3,000 to 5,000 polar bears, and only the state's Native Americans can hunt them -- and strictly for subsistence purposes...
...showy. Observing such deliberate construction can be marvelously soothing, as when Alec Wilkinson, one of the magazine's younger fact writers, lays down a long list of house names toward the beginning of an article on the Tlingit-speaking Native Americans of Admiralty Island, off the mainland of southeast Alaska...
...state that has shunned them for more than two centuries would be a daunting political challenge for any Governor. It is especially difficult for Weicker because he has so few cards to play. One of two Governors elected last November as independents (the other is Walter Hickel of Alaska), Weicker does not have many allies among either the Democrats who control the legislature or the Republicans from whose ranks he defected last year...
...scientists hope to foretell most major eruptions, and their record is increasingly impressive. Since 1980, Mount St. Helens has erupted 22 times, and 19 of those episodes were predicted by U.S. Geological Survey volcanologists at the Cascades Volcano Observatory, in Vancouver, Wash. Warnings have also preceded eruptions of Alaska's Redoubt Volcano, which roared to life...
...from small surges of gas and molten rock. Large numbers of such signals preceded Mount St. Helens' 1980 blast. They also appeared before the unexpected explosion of Mexico's El Chichon in 1982, the blowup of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz in 1985 and 1987 and multiple eruptions of Alaska's Redoubt. Seismometers positioned at Pinatubo have recorded similar seismic patterns...