We stood huddled on the soggy tundra beside the remote airstrip, our backs to the thirty-five-knot wind and horizontal sleet. For reasons hard to explain to those we had left behind, we had come to ...

It’s been seven decades since U.S. soldiers recaptured Attu Island from Japanese forces, setting off one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. Once they recovered the most remote island in the ...

So, I was talking about a trip to Attu, birding at the end of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. Let's get back to that for a moment. My friend Mike and I were spending a month in Alaska, the trip to ...

In late August, seabird biologist John Piatt paused from his task of "stealing food from baby puffins" to look up at the green mountains of Attu, the last island in the long sweep of the Aleutians.

TAVARES — Even before he landed in the dense, icy fog, Bill Jones knew the island had a tragic history by the names of its geographic features: Massacre Bay, Murder Point, Terrible Mountain. Those ...

My friend Mike Mulligan and I were spending a month in Alaska. We would look for birds in and around Nome. We would spend a week in the Gambell, a native village on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering ...

ATTU ISLAND, Alaska -- Against the backdrop of a crisp, blue sky and snow-scattered mountains, a bright orange excavator sharply claws at the earth near Massacre Bay. With each dip of its bucket, ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is wrapping up its work on Attu for the season. This summer, the Corps made camp on the uninhabited, western-most island in the Aleutian chain. Over six weeks, ...