USDA provides $24 millon for rural Alaska sanitation improvements

07/18/11 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that 14 communities, many with populations that are predominately Alaska Native, will receive $23.6 million through the Rural Alaska Village Grant program to fund water quality improvement projects in rural Alaska villages, said a written statement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Alaska Native students embark on arctic field trip

07/18/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - They're willing to forgo showers for days and battle the voracious mosquitoes of Alaska's Arctic, for the sake of science. This tiny group of Alaska Native honors students emba...

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Native students embark on arctic field trip

07/17/11 RACHEL D'ORO Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska They're willing to forgo showers for days and battle the giant mosquitoes of Alaska's Arctic, for the sake of science. This tiny group of Alaska Native honors students embarked Sunday on a camping field trip to the Institute of Arctic Biology's Toolik field station in northern Alaska. The complex, which draws scientists from all over the world, is ...

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