a lot about ag alaska's fishing industry. i sit on the commerce committee. the subcommittee in charge of the coast guard, noaa, america's fisheries, i like to describe alaska as the super power of seafood. 60% of all the seafood harvested, commercial, subsistence, that, for the country, is alaskan harvested seafood, which is remarkable. billions.e and, of course, a lot of my that,w senators don't know but sometimes it's just the basic knowledge. to you was mentioning earlier, we have a tradition in the senate, every thursday, a host a lunchked to for his fellow senators. a month ago, it was my turn. i will acknowledge, and most senators, if they are telling would agree, that the senators kind of mark their senator when it's the from alaska, either myself or cows ky.m salmon, halibut, reindeer sausage, i had just a ago. everybody really enjoys it but you get to brag about your state. in of the things that i did that lunch just a month ago, i not only talked about, which is, f course, a little bit difficult, it's difficult for my fellow texas senators to hear a

we have already seen something of alaska's importance in the air age. e shortest air route from the united states to china for example passes through fairbanks. large planes have given alaska a new place in world transportation. small planes have solved the problem of local transportation, for they can land on small field or on the countless rivers and lakes in alaska's backcountry. on some planes, pontoons are replaced with skis for landing on ice and snow. planes carry mail, meat, medicine, livestock. weighing 900ery pounds is being loaded into a plane. it will be flown over mountains to this mining camp in an isolated mining valley. the machinery is unloaded to be used in mining one of alaska's most valuable intervals, gold. the glamour of the gold rush of 1898 has largely disappeared. today gold-mining is a big industry using mechanized methods. the old prospector with his pick and shovel has been replaced. the early miners exhausted most of the gold on the surface, so today they dig the gold ore deeper in the earth. gold-mining is a valuable industr

you mentioned that you are from yakatat. 22 are mayor at the age of and have been involved in alaska state politics for a long time, since it was a territory. lt. gov. mallott: yes, both business and political and public policy life, in addition to being mayor of yak attack at at at age 22at which i saw after my father died while holding that office. to complete the work that he had undertaken in our small community. i was also mayor of the state capital of juneau in 1994. i have also been heavily engaged in business activity in alaska including being the president alaska of one of the settlement corporations which are unique institutions in alaska. but yes, i've had a long involvement with public life in alaska. you were involved in a corporation called sea alaska. lt. gov. mallott: it was one of 12 for-profit corporations established by the alaska native claims settlement act which was passed and signed by president nixon in 1971. that act so it's claims. at the time of statehood, the state was authorized to select up to 103 million acres of land for its own use. development, the f

alaska. what do you mean? you mean the two fathers of american conservation? yes. the fathers of american conservation trapped on his steamship of the great gilded age going to uncharted alaska for two months? there might be a story and i was right. >> this is no average trip. this essentially was a luxury trip. you write about how harriman doctor told him to take time off from the railroad business and this was a sabbatical and then to go on this major venture to alaska. >> harriman did things halfway he was told to take a sabbatical because the previous summer he acquired union pacific railroad and he set on the front cow catcher inspected every inch of track everything that needed to be improved and fixed. if he was going to go on vacation for the summer he just wouldn't play croquet but make a big affair out of it. this steamship was part of his fleet and said take this 250 longboat and turn into a gigantic yacht with room left over for two dozen of most american interesting people to come with us we make he got naturalist to study the glaciers or through writings and brought his family along so to paint a picture of what the boat contained in what their life was

conservation trapped on a steamship with one of the great industrialists of the gilded age going off to the unchartered alaska for two months. i think there must be a story there and it turns out i was right. >> host: this was no average trip alaska. this was a luxury trip. and you write about how his doctor had to take time off from the grueling railroad business, take a sabbatical. and this hardly sounds like a sabbatical to gather people together to go on an adventure to alaska. >> guest: h >> guest: he wasn't a guy that did things halfway. the reason his doctor told him to take a sabbatical is the previous summer, she had just gotten control of the pacific railroad and its miles of track. he sat on front of a cow catcher and made notes of everything they needed tthat needed to be n everything from improved curves to meet depots and things. if he was going on vacation he wasn't just going to go play croquet somewhere. he was going to make a big affair out of it so he had a steamship was part of a fleet that he owned. let's take this 250-foot long boat and turn it essentially into a gigantic yachts and we w

conservation trapped on a steamship with one of the great industrialists of the gilded age going off to uncharted alaska. i think it might be a a story there. it turned out i was right. >> host: this is no average trip, the inside passage. this is essentially a luxury trip. you write about how his doctor told him to take some time off from the grueling railroad business. take a sabbatical. this hardly sounds like a sabbatical, all these people together and going to make adventure to alaska. >> guest: harriman was not a guy who did things halfway. the reason why his doctor told to take a sabbatical is because review summer 1898 you just gain control of the union pacific railroad and it was thousands of miles of track. he sat on the front of the cow catcher and inspected every inch of track and made note of everything that need to be fixed come everything from improved curves to gratings to depots and such. if he is going to go on vacation for the sum he wasn't just going to go play croquet. is going to make a big affair out of it. he had this steamship, part of the fleet he owned. he said let's take this

alaska. so the fathers of american conservation was one of the great industrialist of the gilded age i think there could be a story there. >> this is no average trip up alaska this was a luxury trip and herrmann's doctor told him to take some time off but this hardly sounds like a sabbatical to go on this mega adventure. >> the reason why his doctor told him to take a sabbatical because the previous summer he just gained control of the union pacific railroad. he sat on the front of the cow catcher to expect -- inspect every inch of track and what fixed to be improved, the grading so if he was going to go on vacation for the summer he was going to make a big affair out of it. and said take this 250-foot long boat turning into a gigantic yacht with two dozen of the most interesting people in america to come home one -- come with us studying the glaciers to painting so paint picture of what life was like from these natural wonders of alaska. >> some of these people were the founding fathers of american exploration took the first trip down the colorado river and the first contact with native amer

book for me in addition to meeting survivors of the quake and spending time in alaska, was i got spend time with george. he is age 87 now. he -- i think he's 88 now. he is still going strong. he lives in northern california. he retired from the geological survey 22 years ago but still goes to the survey offices in menlo park every day. insure accomplish he is actually still work on the alaska earthquake. one of the great joys in i life i get to to spend time with him in alaska, including being a -- his field assistant for a day as we were slogging around the copper river del dark because he had been studying -- takens cower of the delta which is the earthquake zone and trying to fig out how everyone enthuse quakes heap, these big alaskan earthquakes and figured out they happen every 500 years or so alaska is safe for now. so he's just an amazing guy. very intuitive person, just -- he's long sense got his ph.d and everything knows now a lot of seismology but at the time he was just a guy with a rock hammer and a compass and hand level, and he figured it out. it's a testament to two things. one -- i believe is in j

krakatoa was the age before seismologist so what was out. the only way to defend alaska quake was 1960 chilean quake which i was 9.5. so when george came out with this paper 1965 and laid out this basic idea that mega crust earthquakes happen, and in doing so essentially the way i like to say is the only way you can understand this earthquake is if you acceptt the idea like tectonics. very prominent guy at caltech by the name of clarence allen said okay, you think you have figured out why dided you go out and chk out the 1960 quake and see what you see. so we did. he got a grant and with two children. he did more or less the same thing. he hired a fishing boat. he spent time working for an oil company in south america. he did the same kind of surveying work and found out essentially the same thing that there was this incredible deformation and only fault you could have on this point was this slow sliding shallow fault. he studied that one and actually that paper which i think was in 1967 comparing both earthquakes was in some ways even more influential. so he had an inte

. ♪ what sold my heart for alaska was the first site of its main approach by water, the beautiful sheltered stretch called the inside passage. in the last ice age tunnels along which the vessels move peacefully were mighty glaciers. the ice melted away, ocean water flowed in to the carved out fjord, and now this. along the inside passage are alaska's first cities. this is juneau, the capital city, with about 6000 inhabitants. and, the chief source of employment is one of the world's greatest engineering projects, the famous alaska juneau, gold mine. the smiling meadows make this region a veritable promised land. fine government roads wind through these forests and meadows and the one motoring along suddenly finds himself in a wonderful dairy country. modern farm buildings and capital signs as of any scene like the new england or pyrenees alps. when i first saw this scene, if i wasn't sure i was in alaska, i would have thought i was back in jerome, where i spent so many happy years. hundreds of waterfalls come down through the lanes of green in the virgin forest. the natural beauty of this part of alaska equals anything of scenic grandeur in the

recently i was watching educational shows pertaining to the high school ages in the area of geographical locations of places like alaska, and because of the global warming, it has been predicted that sea levels will rise within the next 10-15 years and a lot of flooding is going to take place, and a lot of property that is owned in the south, and also on shorelines will be flooded. so we need that wall to be reinforced, and raised up higher to be prepared for when this sea level rises because of all of the melting of the ice where polar bears are located. this is a very important situation at a needs to be built. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public you would like to comment on these items? seeing then, public comment is now closed. this hearing has been held. all right. colleagues, on the item, madame clerk, please call the role. >> on item 40... [roll call] there are 11 yes. >> it passes unanimously on the first meeting. madam clerk, please read public comment. >> at this time the public may address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes. you may speak about the may 15th board meetin

capacity telemedicine is allowing us to get to rural alaska and those who are not normally have psychiatry services. our clinic retreat anywhere from the age of three-25 and behavioral health services and psychological counseling services, too. many times we go to communities that if we were and they are providing that service there were not anybody else. psychiatric practice in the country is huge and there are unquoted figures about 93% shortage of psychiatric prescribers in the entire country so we look at that number alaska i would imagine it's even higher. this allows us to bridge to make that care connection that otherwise might not be there. >> host: from the patients you see on a regular basis via telemedicine? >> guest: i would say about 50% of my work week is telemedicine. at least 30 or 40 patients a week. >> host: what is the downside to medicating with the patient via skype or another service? >> guest: definitely, making that first connection and getting the patient engaged is important. the way we try to mitigate that when we can is to have a face to face visit to establish care. it doesn't necessarily need to be required in

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alaska and the communities. we will now have access to psychology services . so our clinic retreat anywhere from the age of 3 to 25 for behavioral health services. counseling services you. many times we went those communities that we were there, they wouldn't be anybody else. the psychiatric crisis in the country ispretty huge . there's some unemployment figures, about 93 percent of psychiatric prescribers in the entire country so if we look at that number in alaska i would imagine it's even higher so this kind allows bridge where were able to make that connection. maybe not what it would be there. >> how many patients you see on a regular basis via telemedicine? >> i would say about 50 percent of my work week is telemedicine so at least were 40 patients a week. >> what's the downside to communicating with the patient via site or another server? >> definitely making that first connection and getting the patient engaged is important. the way that we kind of trying to mitigate that when we can is to have a face-to-face visit to establish care. it doesn't necessarily make a requirements for all patients bu

i was talking with a woman in southeast alaska who was a scholar in her tribe and we were talkingabout ice age stories and original legends , emergent stories. the oldest stories there are and we were talking about first about how raven the trickster god used to be white and then through a story, through a series of mishaps he was burned and became black and he said this is a story about the ice age. that the animals were white and the glaciers moved back in the darker animals moved back and the dark raven moved in. these old stories tell memories of ice ages, just departing and the glaciers retreating back into the mountains and raven going from white to black. trickster god raven, she said was walking along the beach and he came upon a clamshell that had washed in and he leaned down and listened to the clamshell and he could hear inside the building of people and he was curious so he drove his beef into the seamen opened up the clamshell and out came the first people. the oldest stories are about arrivals or about emergence. about coming from the ground, coming from a watery underworld. comi

alaska weekend on c-span, c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. now, we will hear from maine senators susan collins. e chairs the committee on aging. pew charitable trust in washington, d.c., this is about one hour. >> good morning, everyone. i am the executive vice president and chief program officer at pew charitable trusts. we have a diverse mix of initiatives ranging from health, state, consumer and environmental policy initiatives. to advancing biomedical and environmental research to support our hometown of philadelphia. i know that july, the middle of july is prime time for leaving d.c. for beautiful and perhaps in philadelphia. i know that july, middle of july is prime time for leaving d.c. for beautiful and perhaps, cooler places like the coast of maine.i am particularly pleased to welcome all of you here today and all very special guest, senator susan collins from the great state of maine. we are recording this event. so it can be prevented on our podcast called after the fact. it will extend the reach of senator collins remarks beyond this and beyond today. before invite senator collins to the podium i wanted to spend a

age. be sure to watch "washington journal" live >> as part power -- of our 50 capitals tour, the c-span bus alaska. with anchorage, the final stop on the tour -- >> it provides a window into washington dc. those of us who alaska. with are far distanced away can see what is occurring. >> we believe that it is important to offer east things to our customers. we believe in the network's mission. to be a trusted media source. we probably support their effort to inform and educate the nation on policy, politics, history, and current events. us july 21to join and 22nd when we feature our visit to alaska. c-span,aska weekend on www.c-span.org, or on the c-span app. >> next, the atlantic magazine hosts a conference examining the meaning of the american dream today, and how it might change in the future. it runs about two hours and 45 minutes. [applause] >> take it away. >> thank you, everyone, and good morning.

alaska weekend on c-span, c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. now, we will hear from maine senators susan collins. e chairs the committee on aging. pew charitable trust in washington, d.c., this is about one hour. >> good morning, everyone. i am the executive vice president and chief program officer at pew charitable trusts. we have a diverse mix of initiatives ranging from health, state, consumer and environmental policy initiatives. to advancing biomedical and

alaska native. through our work, we are working with some tribal organizations to increase awareness in tribal communities and to think about risk reduction. we know that managing blood pressure in middle age can reduce dementia later on. >> thank you. is there anything that we have not talked about today? i'm going to open it up to the panel where you see gaps and other challenges that we should be focused on? >> i think there's gaps in teaching our young people about alzheimer's and how their diet and lack of exercise might be a precursor to ultimately the systems. i talk to my kids about it, but they're interested in it, and they're changing their own diets. i think i heard you say, doctor, that mice, no matter what they ate, did you say that if they were exercising, they weren't showing signs of dementia. so i thought that was a really fascinating bit of information. you apparently have to sweat if you exercise. i'll do it. but it needs to be done. so education for the youth, the young ones, elementary and middle school, they're eating lots of sugar. >> right, thank you. anyone else? >> so the challenge of exercise and diet is that under controlled conditions, a strain of mouse does no

age and you have to be a citizen to run for congress. you have to inhabit the state at the time you're elected. this woman is from new jersey. she admits she's not going to alaskahere. so you say tour self, why do you want to run for congress. she says because i feel a kinship to alaska and there you have it. maria: is she going to do the right thing for alaska? does she care about the issues that the people of alaska care about? >> she says she feels a kinship. she says i want to do good in a place that i feel a kinship for. she's never been there. she doesn't plan on going there. she plans on doing it online. i think she's going to lose. [ laughter ] maria: we'll see. president trump doubles down his support for the intel community now. in a new interview last night the president said he holds vladimir putin personally vbl for moscow's -- responsible for moscow's interference in the 2016 election. you wrote a book about leakers and liars. tell us what you think about this. >> the book is so appropriate that it came out this week because the president basically teed it up. maria: liars, leakers and liberals. >> with the meddling, there's no question that russi

age. it is my turn to make sure it doesn't happen for my kids. one way is to let donald trump do his job. host: that is john in petersburg, alaska. live shot of the presidential palace in helsinki, finland where that one-on-one is taking place. some history on u.s., russian summits in finland from abc news. the most significant u.s. soviet bymit hosted before today that city was back in 1975. during that time president ford met with the soviet leader with talks that produced the helsinki accords when the united states and soviet union got a 35 nations to forge a new cold war under standing. ussr was posted into signing onto a humanitarian rights convention. in 1990 helsinki hosted a u.s. soviet summit between george h. w. bush and mikael gorbachev. they met at a remarkably different time. the soviet union was collapsing. the cbs story noticed that bush used the meeting to gain gorbachev's report for sanctions fornst iraq's -- support sections against a rock's saddam hussein. it was noticed as a remarkable shift as the united states and ussr came together over an international rice is. back to your desk crisis. -- crisis. back to