After 9 days in Alaska, we’re back in the ‘Lower 48′ with piles of tapes from which Kasey-Dee and I plan to produce a ton of stories for discovery-news.com.

We’ll post ‘em on here as well. Here’s a ‘Zoo Logic’ about how varied sled dogs are. I’d always thought they were just huskies and malamutes, and had preconceived images of big ol’ Siberian Huskies pulling mushers along the arctic tundra. I could not have been more wrong. Modern Iditarod sled dogs - Alaskan Huskies as they’re called (not a recognized breed) - have everything in them from pointer to greyhound. Iditarod dogs are smaller, faster and leaner than the ones in Denali National Park, which are more of the traditional, freight-carrying dog. But not quite as small as the ones I saw sprint racing at Fur Rondy.