All that glitters: Alaska's Chilkoot Trail, a unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, was a path to riches for few, but a memorable journey for all.
By now, the story is a familiar one. In August 1896, three prospectors b discovered gold in a tributary of the Klondike River, deep in the Yukon Territory of Canada. Within months, thousands of people headed north to stake a claim for themselves. But getting there was no easy...

Tree-ring dates for the maximum Little Ice Age advance of Kaskawulsh Glacier, St. Elias Mountains, Canada.
ABSTRACT. A dendroglaciological study at Kaskawulsh Glacier provides the first calendar dating of a Little Ice Age glacier advance in the northeast St. Elias Mountains of Yukon Territory. Ring series from white spruce trees, Picea glauca (Moench) Voss, that had been sheared, tilted, and killed by deposition of till...

Multidisciplinary investigations of alpine ice patches in southwest Yukon, Canada: paleoenvironmental and paleobiological investigations.
ABSTRACT. Since the discovery of dung-rich alpine ice patches in southwest Yukon in 1997, continuing multidisciplinary studies have provided a unique window on the biology, climate, and hunting activity in this region over much of the Holocene. Aerial surveys have identified 72 ice patches of variable size, and 65...

Magellan to Receive Its Share of Kotaneelee Revenues.
MADISON, Conn., May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Magellan Petroleum Corporation (Nasdaq: MPET) (Boston: MPC; PCX) said it expects to receive its first payment of net production proceeds later this month from the Kotaneelee gas field which is located in the Yukon Territory, Canada. A Magellan spokesman...

Seven Seas Holds Annual Meeting; Shareholders Approve Move to the Cayman Islands.
HOUSTON, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Seas Petroleum Inc. (Amex: SEV; Toronto: SVS.U) announced that at its annual and special shareholders meeting held today, approximately 85 percent of the votes cast by shareholders approved the proposed migration of the Company from the Yukon Territory, Canada to the...

Abstracts of the 27th annual FM-MSA-TGMS Tucson Mineralogical Symposium: Canada!
Introduction Robert B. Cook Symposium Chairman The 27th Annual Mineralogical Symposium, sponsored by the Mineralogical Society of America, the Friends of Mineralogy, and the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society, will be held on Saturday, February 11, 2006, at the Tucson Convention Center. Admission...

Bigfoot, lost and found.
Time to write an obituary for Sasquatch, the legendary Bigfoot monster who has been a pseudoscience sensation since the 1970s. The best-known Bigfoot claims come from Teslin, in the Yukon Territory in Canada, where locals said they spotted the hairy beast outside their windows and later reported finding his...

Science and the St Elias: an evolving framework for sustainability in North America's highest mountains.
Introduction The St Elias Mountains constitute the largest group of high mountains in North America, containing 15 of its 30 highest peaks (Matz 1999). Bounded largely by the Gulf of Alaska to the south and the Shakwak Trench to the north and east (Figure 1), these mountains...

Development of Vegetation Communities in a Retrogressive Thaw Slump near Mayo, Yukon Territory: A 10-Year Assessment.
A-P. BARTLEMAN [1] K. MIYANISHI [2] C.R. BURN [3,4] M.M. COTE [3] (Received 14 December 1998; accepted in revised form 19 September 2000) ABSTRACT. The vegetation in a retrogressive thaw slump, first surveyed and documented in 1987, was revisited...

Yukon-Nevada Gold Corp. reports third quarter results.
VANCOUVER, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Yukon-Nevada Gold Corp. (Toronto Stock Exchange: YNG; Frankfurt Xetra Exchange: NG6) has released results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2008. All amounts in this news release are in United States dollars, unless otherwise stated. For the three and...