text: great article.  although i'm not sure that sharp-tails are "plentiful" around fairbanks.  more spruce and ruffed than anything, in my experience.  or maybe i'm just looking' in the wrong spot.
  
  there's a local news article from the 20s or 30s, i believe, that tells the story about how there was a mass exodus of sharp-tails out of the fairbanks area; thousands of them left one day.  and nobody knows why they left...?  wish i could find the article.