america, as part of our alaskan 1930 six film, silver millions, the 1949 film, eskimo hunters and western alaska, the 1967 film, alaska centennial and the film a left got highway. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> anchorage, alaska is the state's largest city, located in the central portion. it is known as the air crossroads of the world. contains more than 40% of the total population. up next, we continue our look at alaska with the visit to the smithsonian arctic studies center to learn about alaskan native culture. i think that i am a born again native. isng alaskan native embracing your heritage by choice. it is creating new dances and new songs. thee are carrying on go-betweens. we can talk things out. it is a work in progress. we lost it and we are to get it back and i think we can. i tell visitors if you went from the south end of the gallery to the north, you would be embarking on a 1000 mile hike across the cultural landscape of alaska. you would be meeting the different regions and seeing their masterworks of art and design that have been created over the centuries

anchorage has become a global travel center heart of trade, services, and communication for western alaska sunset, the city skyline measures its shadow proudly between left and its frame of mile-high mountains. anchorage is a young city. 100,000 people call anchorage home. the population has doubled in the last five years and maybe a quarter of a million by 1980. moderate winters and mild summers give the city like the northern great lakes region. and although it's as far left as hawaii and finland, anchorage .as one familiar household name alaska lays claim to the title flying estate in the union and backs it up with statistics like this. one ear plane for 150 people. one out of every citizen is a licensed pilot. combined air operations in the anchorage area, take-offs and landings reveal for air traffic than los angeles, new york, or miami. near-by lakehood is home base to 1/5th of the world's sea plane, the largest concentration of planes in the world. who are the alaskans? native born, foreign born from every state in the union. better educated than the average. men outnumber women. or

america, as part of our alaskan 1930 six film, silver millions, the 1949 film, eskimo hunters and western alaska, the 1967 film, alaska centennial and the film a left got highway. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>

but then on the other hand, there's a perspective of the state of alaska itself or other western states that want to administer its public lands and public wealth as it sees fit trick you tina, cascade maryland. >> caller: hello. i have been, my family has handed for generations. i believe in hunting. i am very much concerned about thed environment. i heard someone talking about that. i heard someone say about grouse. we have no grouse left in maryland. no quail. they are disappearing from maryland and p.a. i'm in my late '40s and i watched this in a my generation. the lands are being cleared. we keep buying plastics and putting out chemicals, killing things that need to feed these animals. and i do believe it's up to the states. my children want to go hunting. there's no land left. pennsylvania deer has died at. there is elk but you can't get a license for elk hunting. >> guest: well, i mean, the sort of heartfelt feeling about the degradation to the environment is exactly what led to the o passage of the endanged species act of 1973. to some degree it lay behind the obama administrati

alaska. >> guest: some of these people on the trip were the founding fathers of america western exploration. these are guys took the first trips down the colorado river, guys of make first contact with some western native american tribes. these guys are used to living on hard pads, sleeping on the ground, searching for water sources. the steamship, the george w. elder was a little bit different. it had a smoking slew with the bar in it. and at what was believed to be the world's largest library and alaska, 500 volumes. they had a map room. it had a milk cow. it had all sorts of animals that were slaughtered for meat. these gentlemen would be seeded at dinner at the end of the day and didn't have like a choice of entrÉe. i couldn't decide between the baked bluefish and capon. they were not traveling hard-core explorer style. what they did do though is they get into some areas that no one had ever gotten into before. there was this weird mix of extreme comfort and going where no man had gone before tried what you write that one of the main thing that harriman wanted to do wish you a beer. he

but then there is the perspective of a alaska itself and other western states that wants to administers public lands and public wealth as it sees fit. ?> tina, from cascade, maryland caller: hello. my family has hunted for generations, i believe in hunting and am very much concerned about the environment. everyone is talking about that. i heard someone say about grouse. we have none of them left in maryland, no quail as well. they have disappeared. i am in my late 40's, and i have watched this in my generation. lands are being cleared, we keep buying last stakes, and putting out chemicals, killing things -- these animals feed on these things. i think it is up to the states. my children want to go hunting, left.ere was no land that you're in pennsylvania has died out, there is out, but you cannot get license for elk hunting. >> the heartfelt feeling about the degradation of the environment is exactly what led to the passage of the indigenous species act of 1973. to some degree, it was behind the obama administration is decision to oppose the hunting rules on park service land as it did

western caucus was introduced to "mododernize" " the esa. in introducicing the legislatio, republican congressman don young of alaska said, "the endangered species act has been weaponized and misused by e environmental groupsps for too long.g." meanwhwhile, in the senate,, wyoming republican john barrasso, chairman of the senate committee on environment and public works, also introduced a draft bill to amend the endangered species act. this is barrasso speaking at a hearing last week. >> congress last reauthorized the endangered species act with amendments of substance 30 years ago. has the u.s. constitution been amended more recently than the endangered species act. stakeholders are making it clear that it can be improved. a major goal of the act is the recovery of species to the point that protection under the statute is no longer necessary. was signed into law, only 54 out of 293 species listed have been delisted because they have recovered. ththat is less than n 3%. as a doctor, if i admit 100 andents to the hospspital only three recover enough unundr my t treatment to be dischargedi would deserve to lose my medical license with numbers like

western united states and in fact as far across as colorado and new mexico. there have been fires too in canada, perhaps 40 majorfires in canada, and way up in alaska.regon has been hardest hit. it has the highest number of significant blazes at the moment. what is extraordinary about this is how unextraordinary this is becoming. year after year now in the united states and further afield in north america we are seeing significant large blazes and scientists say there are a number of reasons for that. first of all, human activity, building out into the wild lands, a century of attempting to suppress those fires, allowing fuels to build up, allowing trees to grow more densely and so when there is a fire it is more devastating. but also natural weather patterns, there has been drought in parts of california for years, and of course climate change, which many scientists say has had an effect. the government is looking at making political adverts online more transparent so people know who is behind them. it also wants to crack down on online abuse against candidates in elections. it follows the publication of a report into the extent of ‘fake news‘ on s

alaska now back to normal. jillian: president trump set to welcome the italian prime minister at the white house today, one of the strongest supporters in westernr. president trump raising his italian. >> robert wilkie will be sworn in as veterans affairs, effort to start fixing long hit wait times and improving patient care hospitals nationwide. jillian: fox news alert, dozens of terrorists about to be released from prison and the government's plan keep an eye on them. the growing security concerns this morning. >> one quarter of growth does not transform. it's good to see but will it last? >> exactly. >> president trump will take a lot of credit for the good numbers, don't believe him. >> gdp tops 4% but the med says 00% focused on slamming president trump's economic accomplishments. the economist peter says the left is ignoring reality. comes next to prove it. my name is jeff sheldon, and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the

western u.s. >> thousands of americans are threatened by flames, in several states, in new mexico in the south all way to northern alaskaaps where the wildfires are keeping firefighters busy. the largest is in redding, california. fire officials say it has grown to nearly 1,000 acres and is 25% contained. there are 36 fire fighters trying to bring that one fire under control. . >> amid the intense heat and dry conditions sparked a brush fire outside los angeles. >> reporter: with more than 12,000 firefighters battling nine large fires in california alone, the biggest one the car fire, scorching 150 square miles. this as we see new images showing that tornado from the air, growing explosively late thursday afternoon, eating its way through entire communities. gridlock on the roads as evacuees are racing to get out. >> everybody was three-by-three on this road gridlocked. >> reporter: families embracing to see what's left. >> to see it now like this. >> it's pretty difficult. >> reporter: among them, redding police chief roger moore, taking us to his home of 19 years. now unrecognizable. >> reporter: your kids lived there

alaska. >> guest: some of the people on the trip of the founding fathers of american exploration, these are the guys at the firstt trip to the colorado river and first made contact with some western native american tribes. they were used to living on the ground, searching for water sources. the steamship they were on was a little bit different. it had a smoking saloon with a bar and what was believed to be the largest library in alaska, 500 volumes. it had a milk cow, all sorts of animals that were slaughtered for meat. these gentlemen would be seated at the end of the day and would have the choice of an entrÉe. i couldn't decide between baked bluefish. they were not traveling hard-core but what they did to his got into some areas no one had gotten into before. so there was a mix of extreme comfort and going where no man had gone before. >> host: you write one of the main things he wanted to do is to shoot a bear. he wanted a trophy from alaska which is ironic given the fact t is that of the men from this trip went othestrip went on to n conservation and preservation efforts. this was a mix of conservation and going after wildlife. >> host: there were two groups, there was the we

western governors for the reason that you said. not only because you have the foreseeable future and the issue of climate change, like in alaska. then you can list a species and what do you do about it? what local work can be done? what state and federal work can be done? you have to have an opportunity to say we are concerned, here are the steps you can take. whether it is climate change, if you say it is listed and based upon review of a 100 year foreseeable future, how do you look away -- motivate the local rancher, fisherman or concerned environmentalist to have a voluntary effort? i think we have to be careful about that. that is something western governors and staff are saying we need to be careful with, the term foreseeable future. >> there is bipartisan discussion? >> there is lots. i don't know that we came to a helpful resolution, but that was part of the concern. >> we are heading to senator carter. >> this letter of support is signed by the governor of hawaii . there has been a submission by the democratic senator requesting earlier. additionally, i have a number of letters with over 100 stakeholders writing support

nation, western part of our nation, and for them a lot of folks don't have broadband so they don't have internet connection, and so for them the mail is especially important. places like, gosh, alaska, where they even get their food by mail and there are places in maine, especially along the canadian border where the mail places are enormously important. and so as we look at not just reorganization of our government, but we look at the postal service, there are some people interested in privatizing and the president has talked a bit about privatizing. we talked about that for years. senator collins and i have talked for a number of years to make sure that the postal service has what it needs to be successful and generates enough money to meet their obligation, and modernize their vehicle fleet which is about 25 years old, to modernize the mail processing centers, which mostly handled first class mail, but now there are a lot of parse else and we -- parcels, and we need to make sure that they have the right equipment. i want to address what is important to the rural and small towns and our economy. however some of our republican friends will not allow us for a -- for a bipartisan am