The conclusion of four years of major channel work represents a monumental milestone. The river is now less prone to flooding downstream towns, anglers and bears can enjoy healthier fish runs, and a historic scar in the landscape is largely healed....
“This proposal, which would rubber-stamp future drilling operations in the Western Arctic, guts key environmental protections and opportunities for tribal consultation in a blatant giveaway of public lands to the oil and gas industry. This would open the door for hundreds...
“Climate change is already making the geese and other birds more and more scarce. With a road through Izembek, that could get worse,” said Chief Edgar Tall Sr. of the Native Village of Hooper Bay. “My community depends on subsistence hunting...
"You cannot silence Indigenous voices by issuing another corporate press release," said Gloria Simeon, a Yupik elder and co-founder of the Mother Kuskokwim Tribal Coalition. "You cannot manufacture community support through financial transactions. The people whose homelands would be forever changed...
“Panthera speaks about protecting connected landscapes for wildcats, yet members of its own governing board are advancing industrial projects that fragment precisely those landscapes,” said Sophie Swope, Executive Director of the Mother Kuskokwim Tribal Coalition. “The contradiction is impossible to ignore.”...
The following appears in the July issue of Alaska Sporting Journal: Editor’s note: Alaska’s wildlife is sustained by a network of biologists, technicians and field crews working across some of the most remote and complex landscapes in North America. While hunters...
Close-up photo of a large gray-colored Chinook salmon is held in a fisherman's hands, mouth wide open
A recreational fisherman holds a Chinook salmon in the Canadian Yukon. Credit: Adobe Stock
Yukon River Chinook salmon have been declining for decades. These declines have...
"Our hunters still bring caribou home, but they increasingly do so by driving farther, hunting in new places, changing when and how they travel, and working around the roads and rigs. That we have adapted does not mean the development has...
