en.unionpedia.org

Fortress of the Bear, the Glossary

Index Fortress of the Bear

The Fortress of the Bear is a non-profit bear refuge and education center in Sitka, Alaska.[1]

Open in Google Maps

Table of Contents

  1. 67 relations: Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Alaska Public Media, Alaska Range, Alaska State Troopers, Alder, American black bear, Anchorage Daily News, Angoon, Alaska, Animal euthanasia, Anthrozoology, Arizona Daily Star, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Associated Press, Bear hunting, Bronx Zoo, Brown bear, Casey Anderson (naturalist), Center for Biological Diversity, Cigarette, Clarifier, Credit union, Cruise ship, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Dart gun, Dog food, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Fodor's, Fried chicken, Game (hunting), Google Books, Houston Zoo, Industrial wastewater treatment, Juneau Empire, KCAW, KTOO (FM), List of governors of Alaska, Lonely Planet, Manchester Evening News, Midland Reporter-Telegram, National Geographic, National Geographic Partners, Nonprofit organization, Observation deck, Perseus Books Group, Petting zoo, Pink salmon, Playbill, Portland, Oregon, Pulp mill, ... Expand index (17 more) »

  2. 2003 establishments in Alaska
  3. Bear sanctuaries
  4. Nature centers in Alaska

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) is the environmental regulatory agency within the government of Alaska.

See Fortress of the Bear and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation

Alaska Department of Fish and Game

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) is a department within the government of Alaska.

See Fortress of the Bear and Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Alaska Public Media is a non-profit organization with member television and radio stations that are part of PBS, NPR and other public broadcasting networks.

See Fortress of the Bear and Alaska Public Media

Alaska Range

The Alaska Range is a relatively narrow, 600-mile-long (950 km) mountain range in the southcentral region of the U.S. state of Alaska, from Lake Clark at its southwest endSources differ as to the exact delineation of the Alaska Range.

See Fortress of the Bear and Alaska Range

Alaska State Troopers

The Alaska State Troopers, officially the Division of Alaska State Troopers (AST), is the state police agency of the U.S. state of Alaska.

See Fortress of the Bear and Alaska State Troopers

Alder

Alders are trees that compose the genus Alnus in the birch family Betulaceae.

See Fortress of the Bear and Alder

American black bear

The American black bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear, is a species of medium-sized bear endemic to North America.

See Fortress of the Bear and American black bear

Anchorage Daily News

The Anchorage Daily News is a daily newspaper published by the Binkley Co., and based in Anchorage, Alaska.

See Fortress of the Bear and Anchorage Daily News

Angoon, Alaska

Angoon (sometimes formerly spelled Angun, Aangóon) is a city on Admiralty Island in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, United States.

See Fortress of the Bear and Angoon, Alaska

Animal euthanasia

Animal euthanasia (euthanasia from εὐθανασία; "good death") is the act of killing an animal humanely, most commonly with injectable drugs.

See Fortress of the Bear and Animal euthanasia

Anthrozoology

Anthrozoology, also known as human–nonhuman-animal studies (HAS), is the subset of ethnobiology that deals with interactions between humans and other animals.

See Fortress of the Bear and Anthrozoology

Arizona Daily Star

The Arizona Daily Star is an American daily newspaper based in Tucson, Arizona, and owned by Lee Enterprises.

See Fortress of the Bear and Arizona Daily Star

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas, printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell.

See Fortress of the Bear and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

See Fortress of the Bear and Associated Press

Bear hunting

Bears have been hunted since prehistoric times for their meat and fur.

See Fortress of the Bear and Bear hunting

Bronx Zoo

The Bronx Zoo (also historically the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens) is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York.

See Fortress of the Bear and Bronx Zoo

Brown bear

The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America.

See Fortress of the Bear and Brown bear

Casey Anderson (naturalist)

Casey Anderson is an American filmmaker, wildlife naturalist, and television presenter known for translating human relationships with the natural world and wild animals to various audiences.

See Fortress of the Bear and Casey Anderson (naturalist)

Center for Biological Diversity

The Center for Biological Diversity is a nonprofit membership organization known for its work protecting endangered species through legal action, scientific petitions, creative media and grassroots activism.

See Fortress of the Bear and Center for Biological Diversity

Cigarette

A cigarette is a narrow cylinder containing a combustible material, typically tobacco, that is rolled into thin paper for smoking.

See Fortress of the Bear and Cigarette

Clarifier

Clarifiers are settling tanks built with mechanical means for continuous removal of solids being deposited by sedimentation.

See Fortress of the Bear and Clarifier

Credit union

A credit union is a member-owned nonprofit cooperative financial institution.

See Fortress of the Bear and Credit union

Cruise ship

Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing.

See Fortress of the Bear and Cruise ship

Daily Sitka Sentinel

The Sitka Sentinel is an independent, family-owned newspaper published on non-holiday weekdays in Sitka, Alaska, United States.

See Fortress of the Bear and Daily Sitka Sentinel

Dart gun

A dart gun is an air rifle that fires a dart.

See Fortress of the Bear and Dart gun

Dog food

Dog food is specifically formulated and intended for consumption by dogs and other related canines.

See Fortress of the Bear and Dog food

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is a morning daily newspaper serving the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the Denali Borough, and the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska.

See Fortress of the Bear and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Fodor's

Fodor's is a producer of English-language travel guides and online tourism information.

See Fortress of the Bear and Fodor's

Fried chicken

Fried chicken, also called Southern fried chicken, is a dish consisting of chicken pieces that have been coated with seasoned flour or batter and pan-fried, deep fried, pressure fried, or air fried.

See Fortress of the Bear and Fried chicken

Game (hunting)

Game or quarry is any wild animal hunted for animal products (primarily meat), for recreation ("sporting"), or for trophies.

See Fortress of the Bear and Game (hunting)

Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

See Fortress of the Bear and Google Books

Houston Zoo

The Houston Zoo is a zoological park located within Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States.

See Fortress of the Bear and Houston Zoo

Industrial wastewater treatment

Industrial wastewater treatment describes the processes used for treating wastewater that is produced by industries as an undesirable by-product.

See Fortress of the Bear and Industrial wastewater treatment

Juneau Empire

The Juneau Empire is a newspaper in Juneau, Alaska, United States.

See Fortress of the Bear and Juneau Empire

KCAW

KCAW is a non-commercial radio station in Sitka, Alaska, on 104.7 FM, which airs public radio programming.

See Fortress of the Bear and KCAW

KTOO (FM)

KTOO (104.3 FM) is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve Juneau, Alaska, United States.

See Fortress of the Bear and KTOO (FM)

List of governors of Alaska

The governor of Alaska (Iñupiaq: Alaaskam kavanaa) is the head of government of Alaska.

See Fortress of the Bear and List of governors of Alaska

Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet is a travel guide book publisher.

See Fortress of the Bear and Lonely Planet

Manchester Evening News

The Manchester Evening News (MEN) is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in North West England, founded in 1868.

See Fortress of the Bear and Manchester Evening News

Midland Reporter-Telegram

The Midland Reporter-Telegram is a daily newspaper in Midland, Texas.

See Fortress of the Bear and Midland Reporter-Telegram

National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

See Fortress of the Bear and National Geographic

National Geographic Partners

National Geographic Partners, LLC is a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which owns 73% of the company) and the namesake non-profit scientific organization National Geographic Society (which owns 27%).

See Fortress of the Bear and National Geographic Partners

Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

See Fortress of the Bear and Nonprofit organization

Observation deck

An observation deck, observation platform, or viewing platform is an elevated sightseeing platform usually situated upon a tall architectural structure, such as a skyscraper or observation tower.

See Fortress of the Bear and Observation deck

Perseus Books Group

Perseus Books Group was an American publishing company founded in 1996 by investor Frank Pearl.

See Fortress of the Bear and Perseus Books Group

Petting zoo

A petting zoo (also called a children's zoo, children's farm, or petting farm) features a combination of domesticated animals and some wild species that are docile enough to touch and feed.

See Fortress of the Bear and Petting zoo

Pink salmon

Pink salmon or humpback salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) is a species of euryhaline ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.

See Fortress of the Bear and Pink salmon

Playbill

Playbill is an American monthly magazine for theatergoers.

See Fortress of the Bear and Playbill

Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

See Fortress of the Bear and Portland, Oregon

Pulp mill

A pulp mill is a manufacturing facility that converts wood chips or other plant fiber sources into a thick fiber board which can be shipped to a paper mill for further processing.

See Fortress of the Bear and Pulp mill

Rubus spectabilis

Rubus spectabilis, the salmonberry, is a species of bramble in the rose family Rosaceae, native to the west coast of North America from west-central Alaska to California, inland as far as Idaho.

See Fortress of the Bear and Rubus spectabilis

Runt

In a group of animals (usually a litter of animals born in multiple births), a runt is a member which is significantly smaller or weaker than the others.

See Fortress of the Bear and Runt

Sedative

A sedative or tranquilliser is a substance that induces sedation by reducing irritability or excitement.

See Fortress of the Bear and Sedative

Seth Rudetsky

Seth Dennis Rudetsky (born February 28, 1967) is an American musician, actor, writer and radio host.

See Fortress of the Bear and Seth Rudetsky

Seward, Alaska

Seward (Alutiiq: Qutalleq; Dena'ina: Tl'ubugh) is an incorporated home rule city in Alaska, United States.

See Fortress of the Bear and Seward, Alaska

Silver Bay (Alaska)

Silver Bay, or Gaǥeit', in the Tlingit language, is a deep water fjord located southeast of Sitka, Alaska, United States, that indents Baranof Island.

See Fortress of the Bear and Silver Bay (Alaska)

Sitka Pulp Mill

The Sitka Pulp Mill was a pulp mill located on the North and West Shores of Sawmill Cove, approximately five miles East of Sitka, Alaska.

See Fortress of the Bear and Sitka Pulp Mill

Sitka, Alaska

Sitka (Sheetʼká; Ситка) is a unified city-borough in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Alaska.

See Fortress of the Bear and Sitka, Alaska

Spruce

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 40 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth.

See Fortress of the Bear and Spruce

Star Tribune

The Star Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

See Fortress of the Bear and Star Tribune

Sweat equity

Sweat equity refers to work one does to build up value without a salary.

See Fortress of the Bear and Sweat equity

The Bulletin (Bend)

The Bulletin is a newspaper in Bend, Oregon, United States.

See Fortress of the Bear and The Bulletin (Bend)

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book is an 1894 collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling.

See Fortress of the Bear and The Jungle Book

The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand.

See Fortress of the Bear and The New Zealand Herald

The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently published six times a year.

See Fortress of the Bear and The Saturday Evening Post

Tlingit language

The Tlingit language (Lingít) is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada and is a branch of the Na-Dene language family.

See Fortress of the Bear and Tlingit language

University Press of Colorado

The University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit publisher that was established in 1965.

See Fortress of the Bear and University Press of Colorado

See also

2003 establishments in Alaska

Bear sanctuaries

Nature centers in Alaska

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_of_the_Bear

, Rubus spectabilis, Runt, Sedative, Seth Rudetsky, Seward, Alaska, Silver Bay (Alaska), Sitka Pulp Mill, Sitka, Alaska, Spruce, Star Tribune, Sweat equity, The Bulletin (Bend), The Jungle Book, The New Zealand Herald, The Saturday Evening Post, Tlingit language, University Press of Colorado.