TUNDRA ADVENTURER—Richard Collins, 37, of Pennsylvania, la
shown earlier this month boarding a small airplane of Fairbanks
Air Service for a ride to Stevens Village on the Yukon River, where
he started a walk to the Arctic Ocean coast. He left Fairbanks with
an 83 pound pack, two 7.5 mm. rifles, and a small Spitz dog called
“Bud.” He expects to do most of his walking in the winter, and will
visit natives and miners along the way. He said when leaving he
was prepared for a two year trek. —Tundra Times Photo
RAMPART REBUTTAL
See and hear a conservationist's rebuttal to the Yukon River Ram
part Dam project on KFAR-TV, Fairbanks, at 1030 p.m. Thursday Sept. 26.
Celia Hunter, noted conservationist will give a half-hour talk, de
signed to “Show that Rampart Dam is not the way to real progress for
Alaska, nor the best use of the gigantic Yukon River drainage basin.”
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ARCTIC TREK
NOW UNDERWAY
“I like the cold. It doesn’t bother
me a bit,” were the last words of
37-year-old Richard Collins, an
electrical engineer from Pennsyl
vania as he left Fairbanks earlier
this month on an unusual adven
ture.
Starting from the Yukon River, at
Beaver, he expects to walk across
the Yukon Flats, over the Brooks
Mountain Range, and down the Arc
tic plain to the Arctic Ocean. Most
of the trip will be made in win
tertime.
He cai-ried an 83 pound pack, two
Swiss made 7.5 mm. rifles and was
accompanied by a small white dog,
“Bud” when he left Fairbanks. He
said he was prepared to spend two
years on the tundra.
No stranger to harsh winters, Col
lins once wintered on top of Mt.
Evans in Colorado, which thrusts
up more than 14,000 feet in the
Rockies. He uses no shelter, and re
fuses a sleeping bag, making his
home under a tarp and two blan
kets.
“When it gets cold, I dig in,” he
said.
Collins plans to visit natives and
miners on his trek. Plans were
variable as be left Fairbanks, but
he did expect to visit Big Lake,
Chandalar and Anaktuvuk Pass in
the Brooks Mountains.
When reaching the Arctic coast,
probably somewhere east of
Beachey Point, near the mouth of
the Colville River. Collins hopes to
tie in with any Eskimos he may
find hunting, and then venture out
on the pack ice.
He plans to send letters to his
friends in the lower states when
ever he reaches settlements. “Some
of my friends have indicated they
may join me on the trip,” he said.
Collins expects to live off the
land during his trip. “I’m in no hur
ry, and I consider myself well pre
pared,” he said when leaving Fair
banks.1'
Puzzling . . .
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as saying, “I find it difficult to see
how we can be asked to approve a
treaty which implies friendly rela
tions with Russia when the Rus
sians are continually violating in
ternational law and other treaties
respecting our waters.”
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Fores! Fire ...
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banks borate crew, and Peter had
been fire trained as a member of
a ‘‘hot-shot" crew in Fort Yukon
during the 1960 season.
Villagers
Native fire fighters from villages
have time and again proven their
ability as firefighters, according to
BLM officials. This is attributed to
their skill with hand tools, ability
to work together with little fric
tion and knowledge of the outdoors.
Both Indians from Interior river
villages, and Eskimos from North
western Alaska are hired as fire
fighters. During fires BLM planes
are dispatched to pick them up.
They are supplied tools and fed I
during the duration of the fire, [
sometimes weeks, by the BLM.
Smokejumpers 1
The past season also marked a \
new high in number of smokojump-1
ers . . . 92 . . . used in Alaska.
Forty seven were trained at Fair
banks. and the rest were borrowed
from the U.S. Forest Service in the
lower states.
They were strategically located at
Fairbanks, McGrath and Anchorage.
Six B-25 borate bombers were
operated this summer from Fair
banks, Galena, and Anchorage.
Pre-placing of the bombers was
made possible by the weather fore
casting of Bill Sullivan. BLM
weatherman in Anchorage, who pre
dicted when and where lightning
would occur.
Sent Outside
Another new first for the BLM
this summer was the sending of 21
top fire control personnel and a
DC-3 from Alaska to Boise, Idaho,
to help with the fire season in that
mountain state.
In years past Alaska has had to
ask for supervisory personnel to
combat fire here. The tables were
turned this summer, and Alaska's
highly trained and experienced fire
fighters were used there.
Stations
Alaska is broken into two protec
tion districts, Fairbanks, with Rich
ard LeDosquet as fire control of
ficer, and Anchorage, where James
Scott holds a similar position.
Within the Fairbanks District is
the Delta station,-manned by Wally
Fixsen; while Anchorage has the
key McGrath station, manned by
Bill Adams. In addition there are
several sub-stations in each district.
What makes us so bitter against
people who outwit us is that they
think themselves cleverer than we
are.—La Rochefoucauld
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The Tundra Times announces a new classi
fied ad service.
List your wants ... or what you have to
sell, give away, or barter. Native crafts, boats,
rifles, furs, snowshoes, fish, property . . . what
have you.
Write Tundra Times, Classified,
Box 1287, Fairbanks, Alaska
Arctic Slope ... $j
(Continued from Page 1»
during a trip to Alaska in mid-July.
Egan said the 60 days' notice had
been requested earlier because the
state was contemplating whether
or not to select in the Arctic jlopa
area and was fearful the Interior
Department “might do something
which we here in Alaska might
feel was not the proper thing to do.”
During negotiations with Carver,
Egan said it had been agreed that
state officials and the Interior De
partment would work very closely
in the opening of lands and the solv
ing of land problems. He said a
number of minor problems were re
solved. i
“About three weeks after Carver’s
visit, I wrote Secretary Udali and
indicated we thought that the time
had come for the BLM to open up
the Arctic Slope area on a program
! basis,” F.gan said.
Governor Egan indicated he felts
opening- up 16 million acres at one
time would result in too much con
fusion, that perhaps it could be
opened in 4 million acre blocks.
He said the state had decided not
to select in the North Slope area—
that it would be too much of a
gamble and particularly because of
losses that would be suffered in fed
eral matching funds for education
and roads.
Claim Maps ...
(Continued from Page It
families that have lived in Fort
Yukon for some time.
Canyon Village is a new settle
ment, but in an. area formerly popu
lated by Athabascan Indians, some
of whom moved from Fort Yukon
back up the Porcupine River to es
tablish the new village.
The maps were made following
this year's Tanana meeting, and
were based on a talk by Col. Ken
neth Sawyer, district engineer of
the U.S. Corps of Engineers.
He said that unless they mads
known their land and property
claims before final dam cost analy
sis are made, it may be more diffi*
cult for them to be compensated. )
Rampart, Venetie, Fort Yukon}
Chalkyitsik, Circle City and Eagla
have not yet compiled such maps.
Eagle and Canyon Village are nod
in the proposed lake area, bud
would be affected by loss of salmon
migrating up the Yukon River.
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