One fisheries advocate says it’s been an especially tough year, with high water impeding fishing for much of the summer and runs coming in weak, particularly the fall chums.
Subsistence
A flurry of lawsuits aim to stop drilling plans in Alaska’s Arctic. So what’s next?
The recent lawsuits over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and National Petroleum Reserve are a lot to keep track of. Casey Grove spoke to Tegan Hanlon to try to sort it all out.
3-week power outage in Newtok leads to spoiled meat in freezers
Families without personal generators have seen their freezers thaw out and watched a summer’s worth of subsistence harvest go to waste.
15 states sue to stop drilling plan for Arctic Refuge
The attorneys general of the 15 states argue that they have standing to sue because what happens in the Arctic Refuge affects their fish, wildlife and physical environment.
3 Yellowstone bison arrive at their new home near Old Harbor, Alaska
The buffalo left Montana for Alaska on Monday — three hardy bulls, which weigh about a thousand pounds each.
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.