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...

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...

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...

Timebeat.com Enterprises Inc.
W. PALM BEACH, FL, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ - Timebeat.com Enterprises Inc. (OTCBB "TMBT.OB") The special shareholders' meeting scheduled to be held on August 7, 2001 has been postponed one week until August 14, 2001 to allow additional time for all the proxies to be received and counted....

Seven Seas Hires Chief Financial Officer and Engages CIBC World Markets Corp.
HOUSTON, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Seas Petroleum Inc. (Amex: SEV; Toronto: SVS.U) announced today that Mr. Ronald A. Lefaive is joining the Company as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Lefaive has 25 years of finance and accounting experience in the domestic and...

Productivity of Loessal Grassland in the Kluane Lake region, Yukon Territory, and the Beringian "Production Paradox".
ABSTRACT. The Beringian "Production Paradox" is posed by abundant evidence that large ungulates populated unglaciated portions of northwestern North America and adjacent northeast Asia during the late Pleistocene, while botanical data from the same period suggest a poorly productive tundra environment. It is not clear how the large animals sustained...

Staging and wintering areas of snow goose nesting in Howe Island, Alaska.
ABSTRACT. From July 1980 to July 1990, leg bands were put on 4556 adults, subadults, and goslings from the lesser snow goose (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) colony (1000 nesting birds) on Howe Island, near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. In addition, 1431 neck bands were put on 1714 of the leg-banded adults...

BARIUM SILICATE MINERALS FROM TRUMBULL PEAK, MARIPOSA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
INTRODUCTION Trumbull Peak is one of several barium silicate occurrences located along the western margin of North America; it hosts such minerals as alforsite, celsian, gillespite, macdonaldite, pellyite, titantaramellite and witherite, and is the type locality for sanbornite. Additional minerals discovered during this study include benitoite, fresnoite,...

Hills of Silver: The Yukon's Mighty Keno Hill Mine.
HILLS OF SILVER: THE YUKON'S MIGHTY KENO HILL MINE. By DR. AARO E. AHO. Madeira Park, British Columbia: Harbour Publishing, 2006. ISBN 1-55017-394-4. 336 p., b & w illus., selected references, glossary, index. Softbound. Cdn$26.95. Hills of Silver is a comprehensive history of 70 years of prospecting...

Ethnographic and archaeological investigations of alpine ice patches in southwest Yukon, Canada.
ABSTRACT. Since the original 1997 discovery of ancient hunting implements in melting alpine ice patches of southern Yukon, approximately 146 well-preserved, organic artifacts have been recovered. Most of the artifacts, variously made of antler, bone, wood, and stone, represent complete or partial examples of throwing-dart (atlatl) and bow-and-arrow technology....