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 […]
WASHINGTON, DC — Senator Lisa Murkowski today received the results of the United States Army Alaska’s (USARAK) investigation into the 85,000 acre Stuart Creek 2 fire in the Yukon Training Area earlier this summer, with the official findings confirming suspicions that artillery training caused the fire despite high fire danger warnings at the time – […]
CAMP DENALI, Alaska—What started off as a fun evening for a couple who went off-roading on the back roads of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 19, turned into a rescue mission that ended up with five saves for the 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons of the Alaska Air National Guard.