Wildlife

Maija Katak Lukin is Inupiaq and grew up in Kotzebue and the Sisualik fish camp, where she’s spent her life subsistence hunting, fishing and gathering. She says her work balances the land stewardship of her ancestors with more modern federal protections.

A judge has agreed to another extension for a final rule on designating critical habitat for endangered and threatened humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean.

The group signed off on a letter to other advisory committees around Alaska urging them to take action on climate change.

Conservationists had sued unsuccessfully to block the 21-day trapping season.

Locals know the Alaska SeaLife Center as an aquarium. But it’s also the state’s only permanent rescue and rehabilitation facility for marine mammals.

Members of the Haines bear task force have discussed using a landing craft or even a helicopter to haul out food from Beach Road homes.