Location: Makushin Room, Grand Aleutian Hotel
Price: Free
Contact: poppy_benson@fws.gov
Age suitability: Adults, older kids
Come celebrate 100 years of the Aleutians as the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. Reception and talks - the explosive Aleutians - volcanoes and more, the good and the bad of early conservation, the Battle of Attu remembered 70 years later and the remnants of war - when will the Aleutians be whole again?
President Taft designated nearly all of the Aleutians as a "Wildlife Reserve" in 1913.