This is post number 508 and there will not be many more to follow this as I am almost at the end of the photos I either took or found for scenery purposes. Nulato is served by Wright Air from Fairbanks in the east and this is included in the AI. Don't ask me about the odd arrangement of the airfield buildings, I have no idea why they are like that. Apart from the airfield itself, and it's buildings, this scenery modifies the local land class, adds village buildings while reducing the village size to reality, and creates a new airfield background. The airfield is close by and has a gravel runway aligned 2-20 and just under 4,500 feet long. In 1900 a measles epidemic cut the population down by a third, and in the early 1900's the gold mining moved to Nome and Fairbanks, with obvious results for local prosperity. During the late 1800's the village lived by the spin off from gold mining, such as supplying cut wood as fuel for the boats plying the Yukon River. The population is just under 300 and living from fishing and the land. Nulato is a small village on the west bank of the Yukon River, around 8 miles south of where the river turns from north-south to east-west, east being upstream towards the distant Fairbanks. FS2004 Scenery-Nulato NUL In Alaska (AK), USA.
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