See the animals profiles link below
Alaska’s Animals, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Want to learn more about:
Counting salmon in the Chilkat River?
Chilkat Sonar Site, Alaska Fisheries Sonar, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Fish hatcheries in Alaska?
Hatcheries, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Counting caribou?
Counting Caribou, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
The Copper River sonar site at Miles Lake?
Copper Sonar Site, Alaska Fisheries Sonar, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
The onboard crab fishery observer program?
Observers in the Bering Sea Crab Fisheries, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
The Yukon River Chinook salmon research initiative?
Chinook Stock Assessment & Research Project, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Sport fishing for Arctic grayling?
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Region III Sport Fish Division?
Interior – Sport Fishing Information, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Learn More About Roshier Creecy and Gold Mining in Alaska
Watch Roshier Creecy panning for gold in winter, at his cabin, and pulling a sled of supplies across a frozen river with his dogs in this excerpt of a silent, black and white 8 mm film made by fellow prospector Harry Leonard in the 1930s. This film sequence is an excerpt of AAF-1866 from the James and George Lounsbury collection of Harry Leonard films held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Click on the link below.
Prospector Roshier H. Creecy – YouTube
To view Leonard’s film in its entirety, click on the link below
Listen to Roshier Creecy oral history recordings from 9 mm cassette tapes preserved by the Oral History Archives at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. The interviewees include fellow prospectors Harry Leonard, Fred Terrell, and Charlie Breck; friends Tishu Ulen and George Rayburn; and family members great niece, Loma Pointer, and son, Nathan. Click on the link below.
ArchiveGrid : Roshier H. Creecy Oral History Recordings (oclc.org)
Read about Roshier Creecy in the Alaska Mining Hall of Fame Foundation’s newsletter, “The Paystreak.”
20smrPay.pdf (alaskamininghalloffame.org)
Read what Roshier Creecy said in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, August 8, 1935, courtesy of the Pioneers of Alaska
Learn More about Joseph Strunka and Chicago Czech culture in the early 1900s
Listen to Joseph Strunka recount his memories working as a child in the Chicago Czech enclave of Berwyn to help his family put food on the table.
Want to learn more about the historical Czech communities and culture of Chicago?
See the following link below.