Bad Day For a Caribou
- Thread starter mvivion
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BC12D-4-85
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Fairbanks, AK.
Fences make for good neighbors. How long have they been dealing with this issue? Maybe a few Inuksuks would do the trick. Worked for the locals for centuries.
Gary
Gary
PerryB
FRIEND
Chico, CA
Yeah, that's what you'd call a scare-a-bou.
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mike mcs repair
Registered User
chugiak AK
nanook
MEMBER
northern alaska
In the early 90s, there was an airport manager named Jack Somethingorother, he put 17,000 miles on his airport truck chasing caribou off the runway. The Central Arctic Herd calved between Kuparik and Deadhorse, then stayed for the Summer! Jack's job was to make sure that the big jets didn't hit any. Sounds like someone fell down on their job there...
nanook
MEMBER
northern alaska
Lonely was one of three DEW line sites modernized (Wainright and Bullen Pt), in the early 90s. We had a Polar Bear at Lonely that would walk down the runway edge lights and knock them over. We flew until late Dec. that first year (91?) and it is pretty dark that far North. That bear was looking at the camp cook through his window one early morning and being from New York, he was a bit freaked-out.
Scooter7779h
PATRON
Anchorage, Alaska
I've been flying into Deadhorse in a Navajo, lots of low IFR is normal. Break out at 200AGL and 2000RVR at 120 knots and have caribou on runway is not festive.
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