Thank you to all the volunteers and participants who helped us organize and celebrate the first Earth Day on Camp Denali!
To celebrate Earth Day 2024, AKARNG Environmental organized a cleanup and educational event on Camp Denali. Over 200 local JBER 4th and 5th grade students joined us, helped clean local trails, and asked engaging questions at the educational booths and exhibits provided by the National Park Service, AKNG Child & Youth Program, 863rd Air Wing Environmental, JBER 673rd Environmental, Bryant Army Aviation, Coast Guard and State of Alaska DMVA, among others.
Lunch-Then-Learn series 2024
During our Lunch-then-Learn events we engage in discussions around a variety of different topics presented by our guest speakers on Camp Carroll.
Eye to Eye with Ivan and the Ice Curtain
The Cold War was not fought on any conventional battlefield, and the members of the Alaska National Guard were far from a conventional unit. Alaska Natives stood guard and engaged with the Soviet Union along our nation’s western frontier for 50 years. Paul Gray’s film provides a thoughtful approach to the complicated issues of cultural contact involving the US and USSR, and Alaskan villagers within the dramatically changing times in America during the second half of the 20th century. Through stories, photographs, and archival film clips, the men of the Alaska National Guard recall a time when, while the rest of the country was learning how to duck and cover, they were standing on the shores of the Bering Sea, where the Cold War was the coldest. This video was made possible by a grant from the Department of Defense Legacy Program.