WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Don Young (both R-Alaska) today announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has agreed to issue new guidance on what constitutes “significantly altered†sea otter pelts under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which will provide greater clarity and certainty to Alaska Natives artisans.
“When I first landed on what was Rat Island in 2007, it was an eerily silent place. A typical Aleutian island is teeming with wildlife, swirling with noisy, pungent birds. Not this place. It was crisscrossed with rat trails, littered with rat scat, scavenged bird bones, it even smelled…wrong,†reports Stacey Buckelew, an Island Conservation […]
The Alaska Federation of Natives Convention got underway this morning in Fairbanks at 8 am. The AFN Convention is the largest representative annual gathering in the United States of any Native peoples.
According to Alaska State Troopers, the Lakeview Terrace trailer park was the scene of a woman's rampage after she wreaked havoc on a boyfriend's property after her boyfriend refused to go out on Saturday night.