Alaska Paper Birch TreesSt. Patrick’s Road, Fairbanks, Alaska

Average snowfall: 10 inchesAverage low: -12° / high: 2°Record low: -60° (1969) / high: 47° (1981)

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First QuarterThe boreal forest covers

nearly 11% of the earth’s surface making it the largest

terrestrial ecosystem on the planet.

The Earth Full Moon

Alaska Range SkylineView from Moose Mountain, Fairbanks, Alaska

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Average snowfall: 9 inchesAverage low: -10° / high: 10°Record low: -52° (1999) / high: 49° (1980)

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februaryGroundhog Day

Marmot Day ALASKA

Last Quarter

One may not reach the dawn

save by the path of the night.

Kahil Gibran

Chinese New Year

Purim begins

Full Moon

Siberian Husky Dog TeamFairbanks, Alaska

Average snowfall: 7 inchesAverage low: 1° / high: 26°Record low: -40° (1956) / high: 57° (1998)

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Daylight SavingTime begins

31 Seward’s DayCommemorates the signing

of the Alaska Purchase treaty from Russia in 1867

Spring Equinox Fairbanks sunrise: 7:51 AMFairbanks sunset: 8:07 PM

march

Last Quarter

Don’t follow my dream.

Follow your own dream.

Susan Butcher

Ash Wednesday

Northern LightsInterior, Alaska

Average daylight hours: 15.5Average low: 19° / high: 44°Record low: -24° (1986) / high: 71° (1995)

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Arbor Day

April Fools’ Day

Easter

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You cannot shut the

windows of the sky.

James Thomson

Palm Sunday

Passover begins

Good Friday

Earth Day

Riverboat Discovery, Chena RiverFairbanks, Alaska

Average daylight hours: 18.7Average low: 35° / high: 61°Record low: 3° (1964) / high: 88° (1960)

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Eventually, all things merge

into one, and a river runs

through it.

Norman Maclean

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Mother’s Day

Victoria DayCANADA

Memorial Day

New Moon

Last Quarter

Full Moon

Cinco de Mayo

Armed Forces Day

mayFirst Quarter

Yom HaShoah begins

Average daylight hours: 20.9Average low: 47° / high: 71°Record low: 29° (1970) / high: 94° (1991)

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Grizzly BearsDenali National Park, Alaska

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Flag Day

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Summer SolsticeFairbanks sunrise: 2:58 AMFairbanks sunset: 12:47 AM

Total daylight hours: 21:49

june

First Quarter

Father’s Day

The beginning is the most

important part

of the work.

Plato

Fireweed BlossomsCreamer’s Field, Fairbanks, Alaska

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Average daylight hours: 20.7Average low: 50° / high: 73°Record low: 32° (1957) / high: 92° (1993)

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Sacred spaces can be created

in any environment.

Christy Turlington

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Independence Day

Last Quarter

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Canada DayCANADA

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julyFirst Quarter

Full Moon

New Moon

Autumn HarvestDelta Junction, Alaska

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Average daylight hours: 16.3Average low: 45° / high: 67°Record low: 24° (1987) / high: 93° (1994)

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Don’t judge each day by the

harvest you reap but by the

seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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CANADA

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Bull CaribouDenali National Park, Alaska

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Average daylight hours: 12.8Average low: 34° / high: 55°Record low: 5° (1992) / high: 82° (1957)

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Fall EquinoxFairbanks sunrise: 7:34 AMFairbanks sunset: 7:52 PM

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New Moon

Rosh Hashanah begins

Traveling—it leaves you

speechless,

then turns you into a

storyteller.

Ibn Battuta

Tundra Swans and DenaliInterior, Alaska

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Alaska DayAnniversary of Alaska’s

transfer from Russia in 1867Columbus Day

Halloween

First Quarter

Full Moon

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october

Last Quarter

Yom Kippur begins

There’s a land—oh,

it beckons and beckons,

And I want to go back—

and I will.

Robert Service

Cow MooseInterior, Alaska

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Average snowfall: 14 inchesAverage low: -2° / high: 12°Record low: -45° (1990) / high: 49° (1976)

2019

What good is the warmth of

summer, without the cold of

winter to give it sweetness.

John Steinbeck

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Remembrance DayCANADA

New Moon

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Election Day

Thanksgiving

Mt. Denali and Mt. ForakerView from Ester Dome, Fairbanks, Alaska

Average snowfall: 14 inchesAverage low: -9° / high: 5°Record low: -66° (1961) / high: 44° (2001)

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Full Moon

december

Hanukkah begins

The most dangerous

worldviews are the

worldviews of those

who have never

viewed the world.

Alexander von Humboldt

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Aurora over Denali, Denali National ParkCamera: Canon EOS-5D Mark IVLens: Zeiss Distagon T* 21mm f/2.8 Exposure: 8 sec., @ f/2.8, ISO 1600Photo © Patrick J Endres / AlaskaPhotoGraphics.com