The Alaska Federation of Natives has launched an aggressive campaign to fight the Safari Club International’s effort to weaken the influence of the federal government on subsistence management in Alaska and restore state authority over its regulation. AFN says only the federal government can defend Alaska’s rural priority for subsistence, and the Safari Club proposal threatens those protections.
Federal Government
‘A period of change’ at the Forest Service: A conversation with Alaska’s acting regional forester
Jerry Ingersoll talks about the impending consolidation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Tongass National Forest Plan Revision.
Democrats say Peltola can win Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat. Really, though?
Nonpartisan analysts say Mary Peltola has a fighting chance but that Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan has the edge in a state President Trump won handily.
Murkowski wants to reassure Denmark, but it’s not clear Congress is with her
President Trump continues to talk about taking Greenland, a territory of Denmark. Congress hasn’t shown it’s willing to rein in his military ambitions.
Newly proposed legislation aims to curb Alaska bycatch
Alaska’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Wednesday that aims to reduce bycatch in parts of southwest Alaska using better marine data, technology and gear.
Alaska pollock processors drop foreign worker program, citing uncertainty
Some of Alaska’s largest pollock processors are abandoning a foreign worker visa program that once supplied up to half their workforce, citing rising costs and uncertainty under stricter immigration policies.