Moose Creek News

The first king salmon of the season were caught by subsistence fishermen in Nenana on Tuesday, which means some kings should be poking their noses into Chena and Salcha soon.

Taxes on overnight stays collected by the borough will pay for improvements at two popular parks on the east and west ends of the Mat-Su, and to put portable restrooms at a handful of frequent stopping spots that now offer only trees and bushes for cover.

The floodgates of Moose Creek Dam, on the Chena River just upriver of Fairbanks, are closed when the river's flow is greater than 8,000 cubic feet of water per second.

Some of you were here in 1967 when our community experienced the worst flooding in its history.