Navigating Alaska's backcountry became a bit easier last month — or at least, more digital. The Bureau of Land Management Alaska has started unveiling free digital maps that users can download to ...

A new digital geologic map of Alaska is being released providing land users, managers and scientists geologic information for the evaluation of land use in relation to recreation, resource extraction, ...

In 1974, Michael Krauss published a map of the traditional territories of Alaska's indigenous languages and peoples. It wasn't the first of its kind, but it was far and away the most accurate, based ...

The draft plan calls for lease sales in Cook Inlet and the Arctic, as well as the Bering Sea and other regions important to ...

USGS has unveiled its most detailed national geologic map, giving the public a free, interactive way to explore underground ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 5 (UPI) --The United States Geological Survey has published the first digital geologic map of Alaska. The new map incorporates the theory of plate tectonics, revealing the ...

A view of the Stikine River near Wrangell and Petersburg. (Courtesy Cindi Lagoudakis) A geologist who has studied Southeast Alaska’s rocks and minerals for decades is creating a new geologic map of ...

M ultiple earthquakes struck off the southern coast of Alaska on Monday, marking the latest cluster of seismic events in a ...

A good number of Alaska names are the result of white explorers from England, France, Russia and the Lower 48. But some local names endure. Most names beginning with a K are Native in origin ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A new digital geologic map of Alaska is being released today providing land users, managers and scientists geologic information for the evaluation of land use in relation to ...

A new digital geologic map of Alaska is being released today, providing land users, managers and scientists geologic information for the evaluation of land use in relation to resource extraction, ...