“Lakes seem, on the scale of years or of human life spans, permanent features of landscapes, but they are geologically transitory, usually born of catastrophes, to mature and die quietly.” — George Evelyn Hutchinson, “A Treatise on Limnology,” 1957. Harry Potter Lake did not die quietly. Water in the basin on Alaska’s North Slope cut […]
Additional Funds Will Expedite Completion of the Road to Arctic Port Site (FAIRBANKS, Alaska) – Governor Dunleavy announced from Kotzebue on Monday that funding will be secured to complete the road to Cape Blossom. The additional funding will expedite the completion of the road, which will link Kotzebue to a viable arctic port at Cape Blossom. “Kotzebue […]
“We will never stop fighting to protect these sacred lands, the Porcupine caribou, and our communities,” vowed the Gwich’in Steering Committee’s executive director. Amid widespread applause Sunday for U.S. Senate Democrats’ long-awaited passage of a budget reconciliation package, Indigenous and conservationist leaders declared that they were “deeply disappointed” in lawmakers’ refusal to restore protections to a key region […]
(Anchorage)–On July 28, 2022, outdoor writer Paul Dewitt Atkins, 56, agreed to a plea agreement for illegally harvesting a musk ox from Kotzebue on a subsistence permit. Atkins claimed Alaska residency when he was a resident of Oklahoma and he failed to destroy the trophy value of the animal in the field. Atkins has worked […]