Dear Neighbors: This state has a history of railing against the federal government. Well, this is a part rail and a part call for personal responsibility so we get our own house in order. Irresponsible Fish Decision Endangers Wild Kenai Rainbow Trout, Dollies and King Salmon: We Can Protect Subsistence Rights With A Smarter Plan I […]
Washington, D.C. – Senior member of the House Natural Resources Committee, Alaskan Congressman Don Young, today moved two pieces of legislation through committee that would directly impact the traditional way of life and subsistence needs of Alaskans. During a House Natural Resources Committee markup today, Congressman Young successfully amended H.R. 5069, the Federal Duck Stamp Act of 2014, to exempt subsistence […]
A Hooper Bay man was sound tangled in a partially deployed fishing net in the Slough down-river from Hooper Bay during the early morning hours of Sunday. 18-year-old Hooper Bay resident,Darin Long was last seen 11:30 PM on Saturday night. Hooper Bay emergency personnel, the Hooper Bay VPSO, and Alaska State troopers were notified an hour and […]
ANCHORAGE: Shortly after rejecting Dan Sullivan’s anti-subsistence lawsuit, a court ordered Mead Treadwell’s Division ofElections to provide ballots in Yupiq, Cupik, and Gwich’in after Treadwell had refused to. Yesterday’s court decision is the latest in a series of defeats in the Parnell Administration’s attacks on Alaska Native voting rights, subsistence, and tribal sovereignty. “Dan Sullivan, […]