An Unfortunate Fox; Also, Its Cold in Fairbanks –

When it’s this cold, every little critter on the market wants every calorie it will possibly get. But how it will get them, that’s another story, and it doesn’t always end nicely. So right here’s a unhappy lesson: Don’t feed wildlife. Oh, birds are all proper; we feed birds right here at our homestead, and don’t begrudge the squirrels a few sunflower seeds. But predators, even small ones, can grow aggressive and harmful if they get too acquainted with people, and that hardly ever ends nicely for the predators. Case in level:

On 12/16/2025 at roughly 0815 hours, Troopers acquired a report of a injured fox in the realm of Glennallen School. Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers responded. It was readily obvious that based on its conduct, the fox had been fed by people. The fox was finally dispatched. The Troopers would love to remind the public that it’s a felony violation and prohibited to deliberately or negligently feed wild animals.

Don’t feed predators. Don’t feed moose – moose can be eating on your property in any case, including that jerk of a younger bull that likes to snack on my favourite black ash trees behind our workplace building, and often shakes the entire building by scratching a pesky itch on the skin nook of the construction.

This incident ought to serve as a unhappy reminder.

Alaska Man rating: Nil. There’s nothing award-worthy about this.

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Now, right here’s a reasonably Alaskan factor: Up in Fairbanks, they’ll’t take away snow – because it’s too cold. Yes, actually.

Officials suspended snow elimination efforts in the City of Fairbanks Monday as extraordinarily cold temperatures threatened to harm tools.

According to Robert Carlson, Fairbanks Public Works Department streets foreman, when temperatures at Fairbanks International Airport measure 30 levels below zero an hour before a shift is scheduled to start, operations are robotically suspended.

“Once you hit the negative 30 range, you run into a few problems,” said Fairbanks Shop Foreman Jeremiah Record, explaining at these temperatures, hoses get stiff and have a high breakage fee, while other elements have greater failure charges in that vary, even if they’re only exterior for a couple of hours.

Boy, and just the other day I used to be complaining about -13 right here in the valley. On the day of the winter solstice, when I walked over to the workplace, it was -18, and that’s cold no matter where you’re. There’s a ritual concerned with temperatures like that, and they contain insulated underwear, heavy Duluth Trading overalls, heavy fleece shirts, Sorel arctic boots, a heavy insulated Carhartt jacket, a fur hat, and a scarf – and that’s just to stroll the 20 yards from back door to workplace. And if you are dealing with temps like this, gown for the climate, not for the journey; tempting as it might be to gown mild because your car is already warmed up, that would be the time when you may have a flat tire. 

I see too many people in the post workplace, local people who ought to know better, carrying only a jacket in this climate. Not prudent.

Public Works Director Jeremiah Cotter said often, these temperature boundaries are pushed when dangerous climate is ongoing.

However, he added tools failure at that temperature is common.

“Even working on the North Slope, when it gets below 30 and you’re up there, more things break, so here in town, it’s the same thing,” Cotter explained. “The more things break, the colder it is, and to try to keep us going forward and not have a bunch of broken equipment to where we can’t get on it when the temperatures do rise, it’s better for us just to take the day or so and not do anything.”

We have had temperatures that low right here in the Susitna Valley; the coldest I’ve seen on our indoor-outdoor thermometer was 31 below, at which level it may be bodily harmful to go outdoor, and even with our oil-burner and the wooden range operating full bore, the home still will get notably chilly. But it’s uncommon right here; in Fairbanks and the remaining of the inside, not so a lot. This was the suitable transfer on the half of town of Fairbanks.

Alaska Man rating: 5 moose nuggets, for realizing when it’s best to just keep indoors and throw another chunk in the wooden range.

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Now, some ideas on the just lately handed winter solstice, and some Christmas needs.

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