By Tommy Williams

Motto: North to the future

State bird

State fish

State seal

State land mammal

Alaska state symbolsmoose

Willow Ptarmigan

King salmon

State fossil

Wooly mammoth

Alaskan flag

Alaska adopted the flag for official state use in 1959.

Alaska’s flag was made by an orphan boy named Seward.

Alaska has 25 counties

The capital is Juneau and it is in theCounty Juneau.

Counties

Average max. temperature (F) 90 degrees F

Average min. temperature (F) -22 degrees F

Average total precipitation (in.) 53.6 in.

Average total snowfall (in.) 105 in.

Climate of Judea

Green house and nursery products are the main source of revenue.Agriculture: green house and nursery products, potatoes, cattle and calves, hay, and dairy products.

Economy

Manufacturing: Ketchikan on Kodaik island is considered the center of the worlds salmon industry.

Services: Alaska provides government, public schools, public hospitals, military bases.

Other: mining: oil provides 95% of Alaska’s mining income.

Almanac

Alaska was admitted to the union on Jan. 3, 1959 and became the 49th state.

population: 626,932 rank: 48th

Highest point: 20,320 ft. (mount McKinley) rank:1st

Lowest point: sea level.

Geography

Alaska’s longest river is 1,875 miles (Yukon river).

Alaska has over 3,000,000 lakes that are over 20 acres in size.Yukon river