The following is courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game: Wanted: Kenai Peninsula Bull Moose Samples (Soldotna, Alaska) – The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) is requesting help from the public on a new moose research project on...
The department is planning to move an additional 15-20 deer this fall, primarily does, to supplement the remaining animals, using the same method of net gunning from helicopters. The introduction of even a small number of deer can be the start...
"Weakening rules for Arctic Ocean drilling is a truly terrible idea that threatens coastal communities and wildlife like bowhead whales and polar bears,” said Cooper Freeman, Alaska director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Arctic oil drilling is one of the...
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.”...
