Gallery | The fires, which were swept in from Mongolia by high winds, have caused almost $9.4 million in damage.
Rabies has been identified by the State of Alaska as being endemic (regularly found) in the fox population in this area.
Forecasts indicate that ice cover will thin by dozens of centimetres all the way up to Lapland.
Warm temperatures are rapidly melting snow and creating ice, which creates difficult conditions for dog mushers. Migratory birds are arriving early, and a mosquito emerged months early. Small owls dead around the Goldstream Valley that looked unusually thin.
Patrick Jones, wildlife biologist for the state Department of Fish and Game, said he has heard of dogs killing moose, caribou and a days-old musk ox calf, but nothing like this attack.
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