Not in my state, unfortunately. The nearest EPS facility is 1500 nautical miles away, as the raven flies, across another country. Since our recycling gets backhauled via barge, the real distance is closer to 2000 miles and takes ~three days at sea.

Menstrual blood has all kinda good things in it, too. Just sayin’.

If “trekk” means “pull” in Norwegian, how come the sled that attaches to my waist via poles, that I use to haul gear when Nordic skiing to a remote cabin here in Alaska, is called a pulk???

Adverse possession does not apply to land owned by the United States of America. And even if it did, in most jurisdictions (it varies by state) your use has to be for 10-25 years in order to claim property rights under this Common Law provision.

Wrong. I worked for NPS for 27 years and never earned an hour of overtime pay. Most NPS employees are NOT rangers! Many of us work M-F jobs (in theory, at least). I did often put in 50 hour weeks, I just didn’t get paid for them — just like most salaried workers. Of course, professionals in the private sector can get…

As someone who gave almost 30 years of her life to NPS before retiring last year, and who can do basic math, I beg to differ. Yes, the average NPS employee makes more than the average American worker. But is that even the right question to ask? Anyone with a High School diploma ought to have enough critical thinking…

All kinds of rice cook in my IP using a 1:1 ratio of rice and water, but with just a tad extra water for brown rice. Brown and cargo rice take about 24 minutes with natural release, but I’m at 1500' so they would need a tad less time at sea level.

1) Americans ruin good whisky (no “e” in the kind from Scotland) by drinking it on the rocks. Many of the subtle high notes and all of the caramel low notes are lost this way. IMHO it should be room temperature (low 60s) with a little water.  Ours comes from a well at about 35 F.

This has got my vote.

This is my 20th winter in Anchorage. I fly a lot. I think the airport has only been closed once since 1999: for part of a day in March 2001 after we got 29" in less than 24 hours. I would much rather have the snowy part of a trip be here, rather than, say, Charlotte NC.

I’d like to parse Trump’s grammar: “I hire usually good people.” Is this just his semantically-challenged way of saying he thinks he usually hires good people? Or is he admitting that he has a policy of hiring people who are good most of the time, but not all of the time?

Telework.

Stereotype much?

I worked at home for eight years straight, and at a latitude where opening the blinds early in the winter doesn’t help — the sun does not come up until after 10 AM. Nonetheless I can attest to the benefits of having a routine, a dedicated work place, and daily outdoor exercise.

This computer outsmarting thingy is why my Impreza is a manual. I can control torque with the clutch and gear selection. With studded Hankooks six months of the year here on an Alaskan mountainside (and the winter driving experience Donner Pass tourists generally lack), I have never been stuck nor gone off the road.…

Covered in dark chocolate . . . 

You mean to tell me that a (likely) demented narcissist who spent most of his life in Queens, and whose major hobby is watching TV (and we’re not talking PBS), doesn’t know as much about forestry as forest professionals do?? Does this means his advice about my bone spurs is also suspect???

So do headlines with numbers: “Five ways to save energy and water around the house.”

“I’ll send you an invite.”

Looks like September — May driving here in AK. Where we use studded winter tires on our AWD Subarus, and merely laugh at slightly greasy conditions like this.