[Turret Gunner A20]

Also from wikey: State Motto: North to the Future
Nicknames: "The Last Frontier" or "Land of the Midnight Sun"
State bird: Willow Ptarmigan, adopted by the Territorial Legislature in 1955. It is a small (15-17 inches) Arctic grouse that lives among willows and on open tundra and muskeg. Plumage is brown in summer, changing to white in winter. The Willow Ptarmigan is common in much of Alaska.
State fish: King Salmon, adopted 1962.
State flower: wild/native Forget-Me-Not, adopted by the Territorial Legislature in 1917. It is a perennial that is found throughout Alaska, from Hyder to the Arctic Coast, and west to the Aleutians.
State fossil: Woolly Mammoth, adopted 1986.
State gem: Jade, adopted 1968.
State insect: Four-spot skimmer dragonfly, adopted 1995. State land mammal: Moose, adopted 1998.
State marine mammal: Bowhead Whale, adopted 1983.
State mineral: Gold, adopted 1968.
State song: "Alaska's Flag"
State sport: Dog Mushing, adopted 1972.
State tree: Sitka Spruce, adopted 1962.
State soil: Estelle, adopted unknown.

[syriacus]

Thanks for posting the info here, Turret Gunner A20.

[imfrmdixie]

The state bird the Ptarmigan. In Alaska there is a town that a group of miners were founding and trying to decide on the name. There were a lot of Ptarmigan in the area so they decided to name the town Ptarmigan. The only problem was...no one could agree on how it was spelled...so they ended up naming it Chicken...Chicken, Alaska...true story.