Biologists are tracking some unusual stranding events around Sitka this summer, and hoping to learn more about what brought about the deaths of two killer whales, and what has made a sea lion gravely ill.
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Native rights group backs Kake in lawsuit over emergency subsistence hunt
The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is asking the court to intervene on behalf of the Organized Village of Kake which took advantage of the emergency hunt to take two moose and five deer.
‘These are the doors, they look like tacos’: More bears killed amid spate of damage in Haines
Last year Haines police got 185 bear-related calls, which was more than double the 2018 number. This year there have already been more than 200.
‘We will give you one heck of a fight’: Lawsuits filed against drilling plan for Alaska’s Arctic Refuge
Two lawsuits filed Monday argue that the BLM’s environmental review process failed to follow numerous laws meant to protect wildlife, land, water and people.
Alaska Supreme Court halts ‘No Name Bay’ land transfer to mental health trust
The case goes back to the 1990s, when a settlement directed the state to manage an approximately 3,400-acre tract on Kuiu Island for wilderness conservation and habitat.
Tribal groups question state’s lawsuit over pandemic hunting requests
Richard Peterson, the President of Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, says he wasn’t surprised by the state’s lawsuit, but he was disappointed.