Alaska Film Archives
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- Alaska Review 37
- Reporter Mark O. Badger explores questions concerning the closure of the Kivalina School due to discipline problems and harassment of the principal and teachers there. Community members express their frustrations and anger with the school administration, and administrators give their points of view. Those interviewed include: George White, superintendent of the Northwest Arctic School District; Enoch Adams of Kivalina, member of the School Board Advisory Committee; Calvin Baker, principal of Kivalina School; Lowell Sage, Jr., student; David Watkins, teacher; Lowell Sage, Sr., student's father; Lena Sage, student's mother; Lucy Adams of Kivalina, former member of the School Board Advisory Committee; Marty Zelonky, assistant administrator of the Northwest Arctic School District; Raymond Hawley, mayor of Kivalina; June Nelson of the Northwest Arctic School Board; and Marshall Lind, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Education. The program contains views of Kivalina, Point Hope, and a class of Point Hope fifth graders. The program also contains Public Service Announcements (PSAs) about energy conservation, chainsaw safety, CARE, forest fire prevention, and seat belt safety.
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- Alaska Review 38
- In the first segment, Alaska Review reports on the state's budget surplus, where the oil revenue will go, and what will happen if and when Alaska's oil resources run out. The permanent fund and permanent fund dividends are discussed. Those interviewed include: unidentified man-on-the-street interviewees; Alaska Governor Jay Hammond; State Representative Dick Randolph of Fairbanks; Robert Hartig of Commonwealth North; Ross Schaff, state geologist; Tom Williams, revenue commissioner; Don Bell of the Alaska Loggers Association; State Representative Terry Gardiner; and Jim Edenso, Alaska's bottomfish coordinator in Juneau. In the second segment, Alaska Review examines the 1979 wreck of the M/V Lee Wang Zin, which caused Alaska's largest oil spill to date. Plans are reviewed for an oil spill contingency plan to deal with future spills in Alaska waters. Those interviewed include: Commander Spoltman of the U.S. Coast Guard; Randy Bayliss of the Department of Environmental Conservation; and fisherman and photographer Matt Donohoe. The report contains views of the overturned vessel, the M/V Lee Wang Zin, in Dixon Entrance. The program also contains Public Service Announcements (PSAs) about senior citizens and the Campaign for Human Development, Alaskan peoples and members of the Protectors of the Land for the Campaign for Human Development, and child abuse prevention.
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- Alaska Review 39
- Alaska Review examines folklore surrounding wolves and the history of interaction between humans and wolves. Conservationists, activists, and biologists debate the appropriateness and effectiveness of aerial wolf hunting as a wildlife management tool in Alaska. A bulletin issued by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game regarding the failure of the 1980 aerial wolf hunt due to poor snow conditions is mentioned at the end of the program. Those interviewed include: Will Anderson of Greenpeace Alaska; Bob Hinman of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game; Ed Andrews, executive director of the Wolf Country Foundation in Boulder, Colorado; Carol Gates, speaker at a 1979 Alaska Department of Fish and Game public hearing; Sam McDowell of the Izaak Walton League; Dr. Gordon Haber, wildlife ecologist; Floyd Tepton, speaker at a 1979 Alaska Department of Fish and Game public hearing; Bruce Snodgrass, speaker at a 1979 Alaska Department of Fish and Game public hearing; Bud Burris, management coordinator for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks; Jim Davis of Fairbanks, caribou research biologist; Bill Gasaway of Fairbanks, moose research biologist; Bob Stephenson of Fairbanks, wolf research biologist; Jack Jonas of Jonas Bros. Taxidermy in Denver, Colorado; Jim Pitts of Anchorage, realtor and activist; and Jack Grieb, director of the Colorado Division of Wildlife. The program contains views of wolves and moose, Greenpeace headquarters, and a Colorado taxidermy shop. The program also contains Public Service Announcements (PSAs) about litter and trash pick-up in Alaska and about Juneau history, featuring the story of Juneau photographer Trevor Davis.
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- Alaska Review 41
- In the first segment, Mark O. Badger and Edward K. Coll report on the existence of the ice worm "Mesenchytraeus solifugus" in Alaska. Unidentified fairgoers, National Park Service Naturalist Chris Degernes, and unidentified ice worm collectors are interviewed. The report contains views of a group hiking in the Portage Glacier area and people collecting ice worms at Byron Glacier. In the second segment, Alaska Review explores the staging of a direct action protest in the Beaufort Sea by Geenpeace activists opposed to off-shore oil drilling in the area. Those interviewed include: Will Anderson, executive director of Greenpeace in Alaska; Steve Sawyer of Greenpeace; Joanna McFadden of Greenpeace; David Reinhardt (?) of Greenpeace; Mark Roberts of Greenpeace; Michael Bailey, campaign coordinator for Greenpeace; Ralph Cunningham, filmmaker; Lee Tomerlin, ham radio operator; and Larry Leonard, ham radio operator and writer. The report contains views of the Arctic Ocean near Deadhorse, the Happyhose Hotel at Deadhorse, the Sagavanirktok River, Heald Point, a gravel island and oil drilling facilities, and barges at sea. The program also contains Public Service Announcements (PSAs) about alcoholism and the Campaign for Human Development.