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(Nay'dini'aa Na') Environmental Stewardship Department - Internal Announcement Campground Host This full-time, seasonal position will be responsible for maintaining the Tsidek'etna (Moose Creek), Slipper Lake, Eska Creek, and Kings River Recreation Areas/Campgrounds.  Primary work site is the Tsidek'etna (Moose Creek) Campground.  It will be the Campground Host's responsibility to ensure that the campground and day use facilities (including port-a-potties, dumpsters, campsites, picnic areas) are kept clean and well maintained.  The Campground Host will promote a safe, family-oriented visitor destination and help monitor the Tsidek'etna Campground infrastructure developments including: campsites, parking area, interpretive trails and kiosks, restrooms, and a picnic pavilion.

The Campground Host  will also oversee maintenance of Slipper Lake, Eska Creek, and the Kings River Recreation Areas/Campgrounds; including trash pickup, distributing trash bags and educating recreational area users about the area.  The Campground Host will engage in limited visitor education and answer questions.   The goal of this project is to restore and maintain recreational areas within Matanuska Watershed as beautiful, safe, and sustainable recreational sites, where health of local ecosystems are maintained for recreational, educational, and cultural benefits.

Minimum of 6 months of project management experience and two years of experience interacting with the general public. At least two seasons of experience as a campground host or similar position preferred.

The successful applicant must be able to work well independently, have people management skills, be able and willing to work outside in all weather conditions, effectively communicate and interact with general public, be willing and able to work on weekends/evenings, carry loads of up to 50 pounds, walk over uneven terrain, and walk or be standing for up to 7 hours a day, and be at least 21 years old and be insurable on our vehicle insurance. - High school diploma or GED. Please apply by Noon on Monday, May 9, 2011. Applications and full position descriptions are available by contacting Ingrid Ling at 745-0749 or via email to employment@chickaloon.org

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(Nay'dini'aa Na') Environmental Stewardship Department - Internal Announcement - Assistant Campground Host This part-time, seasonal position will be responsible for maintaining the Tsidek'etna (Moose Creek), Slipper Lake, Eska Creek, and Kings River Recreation Areas/Campgrounds.  The primary work site is the Tsidek'etna (Moose Creek) Campground.  Responsibilities will include helping the Campground Host to ensure that the campground and day use facilities (including port-a-potties, dumpsters, campsites, picnic areas) are kept clean and well maintained.  This position will help promote a safe, family-oriented visitor destination.

The Assistant Campground Host will help the Campground Host to oversee maintenance of Slipper Lake, Eska Creek, and the Kings River Recreation Areas/Campgrounds.  This will include trash pickup, distributing trash bags and educating recreational area users about the area.  This position will engage in limited visitor education and answer questions.

The goal of this project is to restore and maintain recreational areas within the Matanuska Watershed as beautiful, safe, and sustainable recreational sites, where the health of the local ecosystem and fish habitats are maintained for recreational, educational, and cultural benefits.At least three months experience completing similar tasks. The successful applicant must be able to work independently, be willing and able to work outside in all weather conditions, demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate and interact with the general public, must be willing and able to work on weekends and at night, carry loads of up to 50 pounds, walk over uneven terrain, and walk or be standing for up to 7 hours a day. The successful applicant must be at least 21 years old and be able to be insured on our vehicle insurance. High school diploma or GED.  Please apply by Noon on Monday, May 9, 2011. Applications and full position descriptions are available

by contacting Ingrid Ling at 745-0749 or via email to employment@chickaloon.org.

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The Alaska Native Heritage Center is currently looking for a Grants Administrator.  This is an exceptional position at the Center, one that requires a great deal of personal initiative. If you know someone who may be interested, please have them visit http://www.alaskanative.net/en/main_nav/join_us/become_employee/  for additional information or have them contact Katie Hess at 330-8052.  Please feel free to forward this e-mail to others who may be able to assist us in the search. 

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Sutton residents continue fight against potential mine

http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2011/05/01/local_news/doc4dbcef5cd5122371153356.txt

Those who live off Buffalo Mine Road within a mile of a possible open-pit coal mine wonder why Usibelli Coal Mine Co. doesn't consider them an actual "community." They wonder why in all of Usibelli's various permit applications to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Natural Resources over the last 20 years, it states that the nearest community to the 8,000-acre mine site is Palmer, which is eight miles to the south.

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Primordial weirdness: Did the early universe have 1 dimension?

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/04/20/primordial.weirdness.did.early.universe.have.1.dimension

Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010.

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Our Spirits Don't Speak English: Indian Boarding School

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDshQTBh5d4

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New Theory Claims that Time is Not the 4th Dimension
 http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/04/spacetime-has-no-time-dimension-new-theory-claims-that-time-is-not-the-4th-dimension.html

This view doesn't mean that time does not exist, but that time has more to do with space than with the idea of an absolute time. So while 4D spacetime is usually considered to consist of three dimensions of space and one dimension of time, the researchers' view suggests that it's more correct to imagine spacetime as four dimensions of space. In other words, as they say, the Universe is "timeless."

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They Cause 40,000 Deaths a Year - But They're Handed Out Like Candy

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/05/03/tips-to-avoiding-depression.aspx

Taking antidepressants may raise the risk of heart disease in men. They can thicken artery walls through an as yet unknown mechanism. The drugs seem to accelerate atherosclerosis by increasing the thickness of the "intima media", the inner and middle layers of the arteries. They particularly affect the carotid arteries that feed blood to your brain.

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Conventional medicine finally admits MS caused by vitamin D deficiency

http://www.naturalnews.com/032244_multiple_sclerosis_vitamin_D_deficiency.html#ixzz1LLcFUEc5

Is it true that those who suffer from Multiple sclerosis (MS) just need a little sun? Researchers at the University of Oxford seem to think so. In 2006, a study by the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested higher levels of vitamin D might decrease overall risk of developing MS. Now researchers at the University of Oxford are backing that study with further evidence while also suggesting a link between lack of sunlight and how the body responds when faced with an infection. The research concludes that MS is caused by several factors working in combination but clearly correlates to a lack of vitamin D.

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Many types of organic compost are really packaged human sewage
 http://www.naturalnews.com/032305_organic_compost_human_sewage.html#ixzz1LaMtR6SY

More than half of the 15 trillion gallons of sewage flushed annually by Americans ends up in a fertilizer product and those products contain everything that goes down the drain from Prozac flushed down toilets to the motor oil rinsed off factory floors (http://motherjones.com/environment/...). The U.S. Department of Agriculture doesn't regulate which fertilizers can be labeled as "organic" which means anyone can use the term, including those companies that are packaging what we flush.

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New report describes poor quality tax preparation and refund anticipation check abuses in New Mexico

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5855/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1162756

Between February 1 and April 18, 2011, First Nations Development Institute conducted 12 "mystery shopper" tests of paid tax preparers in New Mexico. These mystery shopper tests were conducted in communities with a high Native American population and close to Indian reservations.  First Nations visited tax preparer sites in Gallup, Grants, Bernalillo, Farmington, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.  The goal of the work is to assess the quality of tax preparation services and to test the hypothesis that the tax preparation firms are steering people toward expensive products, such as Refund Anticipation Loans or Refund Anticipation Checks.

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Major Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Spill Adds to Doubts about Controversial Keystone XL Proposal

http://www.foe.org/major-tar-sands-oil-pipeline-spill-adds-doubts-about-controversial-keystone-xl-proposal

Today, tribes and environmental organizations reiterated their call for the rejection of new tar sands oil pipelines following a major tar sands oil pipeline spill in Alberta, Canada. Last Friday, a pipeline owned by Plains All American spilled over one million gallons of oil in the Peace Region of Northern Alberta.

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Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot: A Greener, Less Anthropocentric Envisioning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJE_Ld-UyCk

A less species-specific envisioning of Dr.Sagan's stirring passage from his book "The Pale Blue Dot".

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Exposed - The dirty little secret of the meat industry

http://www.naturalnews.com/032315_meat_industry_secrets.html#ixzz1Lm4QiH83

Are you eating meat cemented together by "meat glue"? It may sound shocking and far-fetched to most people, but a recent news story covered by the Australian Today Tonight show unveils how the meat you're eating could be made up of scraps glued together to form a deceptively "normal" piece of meat.

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