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Out of the Wild (known in the first season solely as The Alaska Experiment) is a Discovery Channel reality television series. The first and second seasons followed volunteers from urbanized backgrounds as they use survival skills in the back-country of Alaska during the fall and winter .
Citizen Corps is a program under the Department of Homeland Security, founded in 2002 as part of the USA Freedom Corps, that provides training for the population of the United States to assist in the recovery after a disaster or terrorist attack. Each local Citizen Corps Council partners with organizations, volunteers and businesses to organize ...
The site comprised a mound of about 400 square feet (37 m 2), about 4 feet (120 cm) tall. Thirty years later, the disposal was discovered in archival documents by a University of Alaska researcher. State officials immediately traveled to the site and found low levels of radioactivity at a depth of two feet (60 cm) in the burial mound.
Project VOLAR, or Project Volunteer Army, was an American series of experiments designed to determine how to successfully transition the U.S. Army to total volunteerism.. Its primary mission was to determine how to increase volunteer enlistment and retenti
The Alaska experiment station works to produce new varieties that will succeed in Alaska's weather conditions, often starting from plant or animal strains used in Scandinavia and Siberia. Below are release dates and varieties developed. 2009. Sunshine hulless barley [1] 2008. Midnight Sun-flower (unofficial release) [2] 2006. Wooding barley; 2001.
Memorial plaque for the origin of the Student Volunteer Movement, July 1886, Northfield Mount Hermon School Conference memorial Arthur Tappan Pierson founder of SVM The social and religious milieu of the late nineteenth century was favorable in nearly all ways for the birth and growth of a movement such as the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions.
The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. It was established in March 1961 by an executive order (10924) of President John F. Kennedy and authorized by Congress the following September by the Peace Corps Act.
The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) is a United States federal law signed by President Jimmy Carter on December 2, 1980. [1] ANILCA provided varying degrees of special protection to over 157 million acres (640,000 km 2 ) of land, including national parks , national wildlife refuges , national monuments , wild and scenic ...