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Environment
Allison Finch

Alaska Governor Issues A Declaration Of Disaster As Flooding Hit Communities In Alaska

Dogs in Don Cousins' (Crooked Creek, Alberta, Canada) team run in the Open World Championship Sled Dog Races during the Fur Rendezvous on March 1, 2020, in Anchorage, Alaska. Crooked Creek was flooded as Alaska has declared a disaster. LANCE KING/ACCUWEATHER

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a disaster declaration after ice jams and snow melt led to significant flooding in several communities along the Kuskokwim and Yukon rivers this past weekend.

A major ice jam on the Yukon River, which originates in the coastal mountains of Canada and flows nearly 2,000 miles northwest into the Bering Sea, has created catastrophic flooding in several riverfront communities.

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