Trans-Alaska Pipeline Is Working On Gulkana River Stabilization Project Near Pipeline Bridge

Eroding Riverbank Is Causing Problems Near A Pipeline Bridge Spanning   Alaska's Gulkana River  The Trans-Alaska Pipeline near Glennalle...

Commentary Of A Former Pipeline Worker About Putting In The Gulkana River Bridge At Sourdough

A Section Of Alyeska Pipe Was Originally Intended As A Buried Crossing  By Rod E.  NOTE FROM THE JOURNAL August, 2026  At Christmastime in 2...

Alaska Lost 4.5% Of Its Federal Jobs In 2025... Copper Valley Lost Up To 10%

 Copper Valley Heavily Hit By Federal Job Losses  Alaska On The Whole Is Third Hardest Hit State In The Nation  Many Programs, From SBA To N...

Copper Valley Alaskan History: Frank Ewan's 1936 Food Cache On The Banks Of The Copper River

COPPER RIVER COUNTRY JOURNAL   HISTORIC PHOTO COLLECTION  Danny Ewan (left) and Harding Ewan in the 1980s. (Photo by Linda Weld) The people ...

Epic History With The Country Journal: Along The Alaskan Trails To Fairbanks & Eagle

COPPER RIVER COUNTRY JOURNAL  Tourist Season In The Early 1900s  The History Of Alaska's Roadhouses, And The Old, Well-Trodden Trails Th...

Photos & Final Report On Alaska Edgerton Fire At Mile 10.3, Week Of July 13-19, 2026

Smoldering Fire In Black Spruce On Edgerton Was Knocked Down  On Friday, a DFFP engine reported the 1-acre  Edgerton Fire (#424)  creeping a...

Kennicott, Alaska, River Warning: The River Is Wide.

  Kennicott. (Photo, Journal archives)  SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER?  ...PROBABLY NOT SAYS NPS  Use Caution at Streams and Rivers During An...

Falling Rock In Root Glacier Access Trail Near Kennicott, Alaska, Is Endangering Hikers, Says NPS

  Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve News Release  Root Glacier. (Photo to the Journal, Neil Hannan)  Closed Area on Root Glaci...

Chisana Caribou Hunt. Information From Alaska National Park Service

  Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve News Release  Caribou with Calf. (Photo to the Journal, BLM)  2026 Federal Subsistence Hun...

Notice To Copper Valley Residents Regarding Alaska Subsistence Hunts In Wrangell-St. Elias

  Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve News Release  Federal Subsistence Hunting Permits Available July 20 for Wrangell-St. Elias...

Summer Finally Arrives In Alaska

    Weather With Your Coffee High Pressure Clears Clouds Out Of State High In Mid To Upper 70's This Week Saturday, August 1st – First L...

Only God Could Stop The 1981 Wilson Camp Lightning Fire Across The Copper River

As Canada Burns In July, 2026, Remembering When The Copper Valley Was Ablaze    FROM THE JOURNAL ARCHIVES  COPPER RIVER HISTORY  The Wilson ...

Two-Acre Alaskan Brush & Grass Fire At Mile 13 Edgerton In Kenny Lake

  DFFP weekly wildland fire roundup for July 6-12   BY  ALASKA DIVISION OF FORESTRY & FIRE PROTECTION   on   JULY 13, 2026 Following the...

Lost History Of The Copper Valley, Alaska: Copper Center & Gakona 30 Years Ago

THE JOURNAL ARCHIVES  LOST HISTORY   Copper Center home in 1996. (Journal archives)  Thirty Years Ago, The Country Journal Catalogued Some O...

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