Whale bones airlifted from beach at Kincaid Park

Researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks returned to the beach below Kincaid Park on Wednesday to collect the remaining bones of a humpback whale that washed ashore in July.
It was their second trip to the site. Aren Gunderson, mammal curator at UAF’s Museum of the North, said lighter bones were carried from the beach in September. Researchers and volunteers made 45 trips up a 200-foot bluff to get them to the parking lot near the motocross track, where the bones were then