Late May our first child was born in the wee hours of a warm muggy morning. We happened to be adopting but I was lucky enough to have been there for her since the beginning, and was also lucky enough to be part of her birth. As you can imagine we have been busy since […]
The Environmental Protection Agency is not particularly popular in Alaska, where it is often a symbolic lightning rod that represents federal intervention in state resources. Like national Republicans needing to deny climate science, it is a political fact of life that Alaskan politicians of both major parties need to express opposition to the EPA. Take […]
Summer run Yukon River keta salmon processed by Kwik’Pak Fisheries in the Lower Yukon River town of Emmonak has found its way to seafood shoppers in Safeway stores in the Pacific Northwest. In seafood display cases in the Seattle area this past week, fresh keta salmon fillets from that Lower Yukon processor, priced at $6.99 […]
Federal fisheries officials have published a proposed rule to implement Steller sea lion protection measures for groundfish fisheries in Alaska’s Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. The intent of the proposed rule is twofold. First, it is to protect endangered western distinct population segments of Steller sea lions and their critical habitat, as required under the Endangered […]