Carter’s bold protection of 100 million acres of wild Alaska began with a float trip in Idaho
This column was first published on Rocky Barker’s “Letters from the West” blog on Dec. 30, 2024. The most significant land ...
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The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets
A system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable ...
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Debate over potential bycatch rules takes center stage at fishery council meeting
The issue pits a multibillion-dollar industry against Western Alaska subsistence communities struggling with record-low ...
Advocates call on Yukon Energy to consider salmon in plans to relicense Mayo dam
Built in the 1950s, the dam has obstructed the upriver migration of fish, including chinook, whose numbers are a fraction of ...