Construction is beginning today on the ice road connecting Yellowknife to Dettah on the N.W.T.'s Yellowknife Bay, but a warm November means that it will open in January for the second time since the 2006/2007 season, and the second year in a row.

Hazardous driving conditions due to freezing rain.

An unusual morning haze "winter fog", was observed, attributed to a layer of moist air trapped near the ground.

On a field trip with Northwest Indian College Geology class to Chuckanut Drive saw water with apparent difference in color.

Moose and other species have advanced north with warming temperatures. University of Alaska Fairbanks assistant professor of water and environmental research Ken Tape said movement of boreal species into far northern Alaska has corresponded over the last century with earlier snow-melt and river ice out.

Three healthy snowfalls with progessively more snow each time.

Warmer temperatures during this fall/winter seem to be changing there life cycle.

Koyuk River foze solid by Oct-14 by the 28th there was open water.

Himalaya blackberry is an introduced, perennial, spreading shrub.

Sea ice is here and then disapears.

Early sighting of snow this year.

Winter is near, but, it is unusually nice outside these days.

Rapid growth of white spruce over the past three summers observed.

This is the second year we have noticed that the spruce tips are very long, in fact longer than I have ever seen.