Drunken forest effect is what happens when the trees become tilted at odd angles because of the melting perma frost softening the soil.

I was born and raised in Anchorage. People don't often think about us, but it is truely one of the best places to live on earth. The astounding natural beauty, fishing, outdoor activities, and incredible summers are to die for.

Greetings from Sitka, AK! I am a commercial fisherman in Southeast Alaska, fishing primarily for halibut, salmon, spot prawns and lingcod. I think we have a pretty special corner of the world, and am very grateful I had the chance to move here 10 years ago to start my fishing career. I think everybody should visit AK once, just to see it with their own eyes.

You can see Russia from some parts of the Alaskan coast, and in some places in cold winters, the Bering strait can freeze over and you can hypothetically walk only 3ish miles from Alaska to a Russian owned island or 55 miles to Russia. If you did so, the time would change 21 hours due to time zones!

dude, your woman thinks atomic warfare should be confined to MY STATE? oh hell no!

Russia and the United States in the 1800s were actually very friendly (you could say Russia was the United States best European friend). We both were suspicious of the British and President Lincoln had a good relationship with the Russian Tsar at the time. Alaskan islands were actually taken over by the Japanese in world war 2 (after they also took over the American colonies of Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines) but Canadian and American troops pushed them out of the region.

Visited Anchorage, Alaska a couple of times for short stay. One was at end of May and the sun was out about 16 hrs a day. Driving around, decided to have dinner, it was already 9pm. Alaska, Canada and Greenland are definitely important as parts of NORAD early warning defense.

Alaska is one of the most underrated state.

When Alaska was purchased, people called it "Seward's Folly" because of the Secretary of State Seward and how they imagined the purchase was a huge negative for the US.

Being from Alaska, it's nice seeing my home state on KZfaq. Alaska is greatly forgotten about. Look up Big Diamede and Little Diamede. Big Diamede is on the russian side and Little Diamede is on Alaskas side. 3 miles separates the 2 islands.

It's 2.4 miles between Big and Little Diomede islands; Big is Russian and Little is U.S. People on the two islands frequently trade and interact; by boat in the warmer times and snow machines in the winter. He spent a lot of time on climate change and gave short shrift to the security importance - that is probably the most important element since you can just look at how the state is situated between the "Lower 48" and potential hostile countries. I lived four years in the interior of Alaska back when there was the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line of stations scanning for incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles. There are still many important stations in the state for military purposes, since security is the most important mission of any country's administration. As far as growing food, the Matanuska Valley near Palmer has farming and livestock. Warm summer temperatures and an abundance of sunlight creates giant crops setting records such as a green cabbage weighing in at 138.25 pounds; a beet at 42.75 pounds ; and a turnip weighing 39.20 pounds. So much more he could have covered about "most important."

Russia and Alaska are divided by the Bering Strait, which is about 55 miles at its narrowest point.

Alaska summers are actually nicely warm in summer.

Russia was at war with the native Alaskans and losing. They sold to the US what they didn't own.

It seems that the part where Russians came all the way down to just north of the Bay Area at Fort Ross was forgotten. The otter fur trade, and other animals, is what he was talking about, however, the other animal that was hunted not mentioned was whales. Also missing was the part of the Klondike Gold rush, the making of the writer Jack London and his gripping stories of the unmerciful cold.

You can’t see Mainland Russia from Mainland Alaska. However, if you’re on either Big Diomede Island (owned by Russia) or Little Diomede Island (owned by Alaska), you can see each other’s territory as it’s only 40 km (25 miles) away

I'm in Fairbanks, Alaska, it's -5 f right now, aurora activity probably really good tonight.

He didn’t mention that Alaska is getting to be a popular tourist destination. I know several people that have taken a cruise from Seattle and other places.

YAY!! I live in Alaska. 💪 It was -20 below 0 Fahrenheit yesterday. That's about -30 in Celsius I think. It's true the state does pay us to live here every year. Last year it was $3200 per person, that includes children

One of the best states to live in especially if you love nature, I lived in Alaska for less than a year but I'll never forget my time there. And not sure how it is now but when we lived there in the early 90's you did get paid to live there,

The Bering Strait, which you were pointing out in your video, is the closest that Alaska comes to Russia. The Bering Strait seperates the 2 by a distance of only 55 miles or 88.5 km. This further supports how vital Alaska is to America. Thank you for this video.

I live in ak anchorage its a cool place lots of military stuff and lots of hippies. Alaska summer s is awesome just like your channel keep it up

Born and raised in Soldotna AK. This makes me happy

Between 1990 and 2020 the number of farms in Alaska has doubled. Permafrost still covers ~80%+ of Alaska, but as it melts the land becomes arable. The types of crops able to be grown in Alaska, however, is still limited to very short growing seasons, but the amount of daylight received during the Summer months means those limited crops Alaska is able to grow will be considerably larger and more abundant than the same crop grown in the lower-48. Like pumpkins that weigh 950 kg and are 5.5 meters in diameter. Or cabbages that weigh 62 kg. Alaska has lots of oil. The only reason oil production has declined is because Congress refuses to allow Alaska to develop our oil resources. Alaska has been trying to develop ~8 billion barrels of oil from the 1002 Area in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge since 1980. Finally, by 2020 Alaska was allowed to lease the land for oil development in the 1002 Area of ANWR, only to have President Biden in 2021 illegally place a hold on the sale of those leases. Alaska is a resource State. The only reason there are no State income or sales taxes is because of the resources Alaska can sell. Every barrel of oil produced and shipped out of Alaska costs the oil companies 20%. So if the oil companies get $50/barrel, the State of Alaska gets $10/barrel. Those oil royalties, plus the royalties from all the gold, copper, lead, and zinc mines in Alaska fund State government so the people living in the State don't have to. All resources in the State are subject to royalties since all resources are considered to be the property of the people living in the State. Which is where the Permanent Fund Dividend checks come in.

America would survive without many of the most populated states, but it couldn’t survive without the farm belt.

In central Iowa (the largest corn producer in the USA), the average temperature has been trending downward since 2015. The trend equation is y = -0.0006x + 77.061. In fact, the minimum & maximum temperature averages are also trending downward. So, it's not getting warmer everywhere.

Alaska has so many resources. Gold, oil, seafood, other metals and minerals...

This is where, I live in Alaska.

Home sweet home Ketchikan Alaska, current temperature at this time is 21 degrees Fahrenheit.

Ive been living in Alaska for 7 years now. I live in Anchorage

This isn’t said enough, but it really is an honor that y’all are so interested in our union of states.

I think those of us in the lower 48 really do underestimate Alaska. We generally don't think about Alaska or Hawaii unless something terrible happens. We know they are there but we kind of see them as outside the core US a lot of times. As American but as their own distinct thing. Frankly, although I've never been, I think Alaska with its stereotypical independence, probably prefers it that way, tbh.

Greetings from Fairbanks. My life in the interior has been wonderful. My family homesteaded agricultural land in the early 1950's in Fairbanks and I had the privilege to have a farm life. To this day, we still have over 100 acres of farm land and continue to grow crops and animals for our large family.

Alaskan born and raised, there is definitely a sales tax but it's not state wide. Every city votes wether or not to have it, for example Anchorage has no sales tax but when I moved away Palmer did.

Alaska basically is important for two things the Bering Straits which are full of fisheries and most of Alaska is pure out oil territory meaning you dig and you get rich. Oil drilling is extremely profitable out there and it’s literally you can get gas super cheap out there. Texas has some seriously cheap gas too. Hence it’s importance.

Im 53 years old and was born in Alaska, there were drunken forests when i was little, well before any climate change or global warming.

Alaska and Russia are very close together. There is a pair of islands called Big Diomede and Little Diomede. Big Diomede is Russia and Little Diomede is American. These islands are only separated by 2 miles and in the winter you can walk between them on the frozen sea. The island of Attu in the Aleutian Island chain is only 580 miles.

$0.2 per acre is insane… the vast amount of gold that came out of it, oil, fish…. Which explains why Russia was pretty mad and wanted it back 🤣🤣🤣

I once flew from Fairbanks to Anchorage. It was snowing so hard, it would have shut down any other airport I can think of

Narrowest point of the Bering Strait separating Russia and Alaska is just over 50 miles. Melting permafrost has caused widespread collapse of roads and buildings, in addition to the "drunken forest effect" - trees falling over.

A large part of the "oil problems" Alaska is currently facing is not the lack of oil to pump, but is instead related to the current energy policies of our current government.

Alaska should be told about more. alaska now has 9 military bases, 26,700 soldiers including 22,000 air force, army, navy, and marine corps personnel, along with 4,700 national guard members and reservists. basically, Alaska is the real power behind the throne.

You can indeed see Russia from Alaska. Little Diomede Island (US) is a mere 2.33 miles away from Bid Diomede Island (Russia), Comparatively, Jersey is 14 miles from the French coast.

It’s 55 miles from Siberia to mainland Alaska

Over time, several offers to buy Greenland from Denmark were made. Around 1945, we "should've made them an offer they couldn't refuse." 🙂

Anchorage represent! I moved here and love it

The narrowest point across the Bering Strait is 50 miles. But the seas there are very inhospitable with waves that rise hundreds of feet. The shortest distance between the US and Russia in the Alleutian Islands chain is about 2.5 miles or 4 km. You can cross on foot on the ice during the winter or easily row a bot there.

Hello from Kenai, Alaska!

I grew up in Alaska and have been all over the state working as a commercial fisherman,bushplane pilot and guide,and doing oil exploration.you can see Russia from little Diomedes island on a clear day.russia owns big Diomedes and the u.s.a. owns little Diomedes island.

The Czar needed money for his wars so he sold it to us for a song. It was the deal of the century.

11 dollars per square mile and there’s 640 acres in a square mile. What a steal.

The Trans Alaska Pipeline transports approximately 500,000 barrels of oil in a day. At $70 per barrel that equals = $35,000,000 a day. 24 hour days = $1.45 million. So in 5 hours the Pipeline has paid off the Total cost of its purchase from Russia. A real deal indeed.

The reason gas income was so low was that the state was denied new Oil Leases for different areas of the state. We still have over 24 billion barrels of untapped oil and over 85 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves. Also keep the Atomic bombs away from the Seward Peninsula, we quite enjoy the culture and nature there.

Maps don't do Alaska justice in it's size. Because Alaska can hold roughly half if the continental United States in its size

Spain did have trading ports in Alaska an the settlements... they are still there lol .👍

Drunken forests develop due to permafrost thaw. Thawing makes trees bend and snap, leading to widespread tree mortality.

Far Colder!🤣🤣🤣🤣-0.03🤣🤣

The distance between Alaska and Russia in the Bering Strait is 55 miles

There are two island in the bearing strait in between Alaska and Russia big diomede is owned by russia and little diomede is owned by Alaska and the island are only around 2.3 miles apart from each other

Louisville, Ky has UPS' World Port, Everything being flown by UPS comes here first, Modern Marvels did a Documentary on The World Port Complex, it is able to accommodate 160 Cargo Jets a day, that's better than 6 Jets an Hour, but they're not spaced out, they all seem to arrive at the same time (my son works at UPS' World Port).

I would also like to ad that Alaska is a great place to live as isolated as it is.the educational system is above par as well as transportation,we have our own state owned rail and marne transportation services and the vast amount of resources far transcend any other u.s. states.but I really can't explain the truly beautiful land and the vastness and multiple eco systems here are truly un believable and just staggering in these areas.it is truly the final frontera and I always urge people to travel and see it before you are unable to.ive travelled around the world and no place I've been is comparable and that is saying something because I've been to some really stunningly beautifully places worldwide.please do yourself a favor and come over for a visit,you won't regret it.

There are 2 islands in the Bering Sea which are about 2 miles apart. One is Russian and one is American.

Alaska... The final frontier

4:34 according to ChatGPT ... The closest part of mainland Russia to mainland United States is the westernmost point of the Seward Peninsula in Alaska and the easternmost point of the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia. These two points are separated by only about 85 kilometers (53 miles) across the Bering Strait, which is a narrow body of water that separates Asia and North America.

The reason that the state has a decline in rate oil revenues is that the Biden administration has refused to allow oil production in the largest known oil deposit in North America because he is trying to force the country to stop using oil and gas. The problem with that is that electric cars lose 70% of their battery life in the cold weather so a Tesla that has a 320 mile range can only go less than 100 miles at below zero temperatures. Even in the summer when the batteries are at peak performance a trip from my home in Kenai to Anchorage and back would require 2 days because of the time it takes to recharge the battery where in a gasoline powered vehicle I can drive there do my business and return to my home in a single 12 to 14 hour day. A round trip in my vehicle costs $55.20 in fuel where it would cost $19.70 to charge the Tesla PLUS $150 FOR A HOTEL ROOM for the night plus the extra meal costs (Usually around $45 for 3 people). So it is $159 cheaper to drive my Ford Escape to Anchorage than the Tesla and I save a days time wasted because I don't have to recharge the car. A round trip to Anchorage with driving in Anchorage to go to the doctor and hit the Costco and several other places is around 480 miles total and a Tesla Model S has a 320 mile range meaning that I would have to pay extra to stay in a hotel for the night plus the extra meals for my family. The 3 people that I know that have a Tesla also own a regular gasoline or diesel powered vehicle for trips out of town due to the limited range and relatively low numbers of places to charge their cars. It is 385 miles from Anchorage to Fairbanks and there is only 1 charging station between the two cities and if it is not open a Tesla does not have the range to go between the 2 largest cities in the state. And that is in the summer where the cold weather doesn't affect the range. We have a doctor locally who only drives his Tesla in the summer because when the temperature drops down below zero his Tesla will just barely get him the 35 miles from his home to his office and he had to pay almost $10,000 to have a charger for the Tesla installed at his clinic because the car can not travel round trip from his home to the office and back on a single charge. It also takes almost 9 hours to recharge the Tesla in the cold so his Tesla has to live in the garage all winter to be able to keep it fully charged.

There's one BIG hint if you look to the left on the map.

According to Google Alaska has plenty of oil but there's some political and industry issues that's causing a lack of drilling and intrest. Decreasing oil output.. When there is oil elsewhere in the united states that is a little easier to get.

Alaska has some of the best hunting and fishing on the planet.

I live in Anchorage

In the 1970's scientists said the earth is goint to freeze from a new iceage. Check it out, its fun to watch.

Noice I recommended band of brothers awhile ago, def gonna check out your patron m8s

Pfd is nice, money from oil is nice to have.

Plus Alaska has so many untouched natural resources, e.g., minerals and gas.

If that view of the earth is so confusing, I recommend you purchase an actual globe of the earth, and use it. These used to be quite common and I think something has been lost if they're not found in classrooms and homes.

Fun fact you’ll only find Military Base the West of Alaska and some Native Alaskans and Citizens lived there.

You should read up on the Northwest Passage. Canada claims it as internal waters and the US and the rest of the world claims it as international waters, and there are occasional issues with that.

I live in north pole Alaska

Could you react to fascinating horror's video on the halifax explosion?

Kamchatka was also offered for sale to America but sadly we said no.

Alaska still has plenty of oil, gas and extractable minerals. It's just that huge amounts are in areas belonging to the federal government or which the federal government has otherwise banned from being exploited. The most famous case is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, known as ANWAR. But I think it's logical to believe that in future, better technology will allow some of this mineral wealth will be able to be mined or drilled without unacceptable environmental damage and, if the need becomes great enough, will be exploited.

You can see Russia from the island in the middle between Alaska and Russia.

Ok I clicked on this because I'm from Alaska. Let's learn stuff together lol

What load, the 1500's were way hotter than today, the central valley of calif, LA, Vegas and Arizona will be out of water within 15 years do to the reliance of Colorado River water and the bad calculations that were made when it was dammed

where your pointing no you can't see from one to the other, a little bit south of there on big and little Diomede islands you can and people have occasionally walked across and since I live here I'd rather they not start nuking us or Siberia. About the agriculture not only would the #of growing day double by that model the growing days we already have are nearly twice the daylight hours at this latitude, we already grow barley and potatoes , carrots and pumpkins go insane up here. (look up Alaska state fair giant pumpkin contest) there is nothing wrong with the well if we can get the fed to stop blocking all efforts to use it

"I can see Ruszia from my house."

Hype from the Alaska lobby 🤣

4:17 in winter you could walk from Alaska to Russia if it wasn't for the heavily patroled Russian border

Two things I can see lacking in his calculations is, I’m not sure Alaska could become a big agricultural state when half of the year it has more darkness than sunlight and on the other side I’m not sure how summer days with almost entirely sunlight would affect agriculture either. talking about anchorage with an elevation of 100 feet Anchorage very well might be under the water once sea levels rise.

Alaska is important because it's next to Russia.

Additionally the poles are moving towards Russia at approximately 55km a year.

Mrs. Beesley made a comment to the effect of why can't Russia and the US fight in Alaska and leave the UK out of it. My question is if that is what the US should have done instead of coming to the UK's aide in WW2? You benefit from US geopolitics everyday (not all of which is popular here) but if it's a threat to the US you don't want any part in it? Maybe the US should disband NATO (since we fund most of it) and let you guys take care of yourselves from now on?

Don't forget there is more oil in Alaska that the whole of Saudi Arabia. The current administration has stopped issuing leases, so production is down.

Alaska is the reason why the USA is about the same size as Europe.

I just want to recommend a video by Atlas Pro called "Who Discovered America First?" I think you'd like it.

Ummmm... I live in Alaska. If Russia nuked Alaska you'd lose a subscriber. If the UK got in a nuclear war, I wouldn't want Jersey to be the sacrificial lamb. How about we leave the targets on those who press the buttons.

I guess we can thank Great Britain for bringing fear onto Russia and France. We got great purchase for entire Midwest and Alaska at very low cost

A lot of the fall in oil production in the state is due to government policies.

The Diomede islands are shared between Russia and the US. At one point the two countries are separated by 2 miles of water. Russia is experiencing all the global warming benefits mentioned in this video. Former frozen lands are becoming farmable.

There is a lot of Russian communities on the coast of Alaska. Listen to them speaking while fishing.

Alaska has a lot of oil.