(Courtesy Cindi Lagoudakis) A geologist who has studied Southeast Alaska’s rocks and minerals for decades is creating a new geologic map of the region. That map could have a wide range of ...

Efforts to map physical hazards have sparked opposition in Alaska, but also in other places ... a key role in confronting landslide risk in Southeast. He said the issue routinely comes up during ...

Many Southeast Alaska towns are strung along narrow strips ... City and Borough of Juneau officials commissioned a new map of landslide hazard areas. The 2020 map placed roughly half of downtown ...

Southeast Alaska has seen increasingly short ... Deadly landslides are increasing around the world, but in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial. (Christopher Miller/The ...

There has been very little reporting on federal legislation that would greatly impact Southeast Alaska. Sponsored by ... 1889 becomes law, the map of public ownership will dramatically change.

But in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial. By Austyn Gaffney Photographs by Christopher Miller Austyn Gaffney traveled to southeast Alaska to talk to residents, officials ...