Trash, chicken coops, pet food and bird seed are all powerful bear attractants. Fish and Game is reminding residents to keep them away from bears.
Subsistence
Ekwok recovery program teaches subsistence skills to fight addiction
At a 30-day wellness camp hosted at Ekwok Lodge, participants fought alcohol and drug addiction with fishing and berry picking. Friday was graduation day.
Where are Koliganek’s king salmon?
King salmon are conspicuously missing from the nets in the village of Koliganek, which is about 60 miles northwest of Dillingham in Southwest Alaska.
No answers for low Kuskokwim king run
The driving question over the last several years, and the one that’s being asked again as biologists warn that 2017 could be the lowest king salmon run on record, is: why is the king run on the Kuskokwim so low?
After nearly 20 Years, NOAA surveys Norton Sound beluga whale population
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, or NOAA Fisheries, in conjunction with two other Alaska entities, is conducting a survey of beluga whales in Norton Sound.
Judge orders landowners to pay $52,000 in Chilkoot land use case
A dispute in Haines between private landowners and several Native organizations has come to a close. The disagreement over drive-down access for hooligan fishing on the Chilkoot River was resolved by a judge last year.