Interior Alaska: Frontier Community

State of the Re:Union by WJCT

Jun 10, 201450:56Society & Culture

Interior Alaska can be a forbidding place. The region is largely wilderness, covered with expansive stretches of tundra and towering mountain ranges. Winters are long and dark, with just a few hours of sunlight on the sh...

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