According to a release from the Center for Disease Control, Norton Sound was again struck by suspected Walrus-related Trichinellosis from eating under-cooked Walrus meat, bringing the outbreak to a total of ten since August of 2016. The incidences this year and in 2016, mark the first time in 23 years that the parasite, from Walrus, […]
NOAA Fisheries’ Alaska Fisheries Science Center (Marine Mammal Laboratory), in collaboration with the Alaska Beluga Whale Committee and the North Slope Borough, will be conducting aerial surveys for the Eastern Bering Sea stock of belugas in Norton Sound and near the Yukon River Delta, Alaska. Through the surveys, NOAA hopes to derive an updated population […]
ANCHORAGE – May 31, 2017 – Alaskans living in Norton Sound villages now have better access to health care as part of an innovative GCI project that brings high-speed internet to thousands in rural Alaska. This month, GCI connected health care clinics in Elim, Golovin and White Mountain to its Terrestrial for Every Rural Region in Alaska […]
Thanks to sponsorships from the National Park Service and Arctic Cat, the Ride for Life suicide prevention campaign will once again hit the trail on March 19, this time snowmachining more than 1,800 miles across Alaska to engage school children and adults in village in the Yukon-Kuskoskwim Delta up to the Norton Sound. Alaska Wildlife […]