The Alaska Board of Game changed the highly restricted Nelchina caribou hunt slightly Monday, including reducing the maximum number of permits per household.
Villagers from the Copper River Basin are unhappy with Tier 2 subsistence hunting restrictions being implemented by the Board of Game and came to Anchorage to sound off Monday.
More than 50 Alaska Natives carried signs and walked the sidewalks through an early-morning drizzle Saturday in downtown Anchorage, protesting Board of Game proposals that would radically overhaul the popular Nelchina caribou hunt.
A renewed battle over water rights is just the latest hurdle for a Canadian mining firm hoping to develop a massive copper-gold-molybdenum deposit in Southwest Alaska.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 26, 2006 (ENS) - Plaintiffs have agreed to a $330 million settlement with Murphy Oil over damages from a massive oil spill considered the worst environmental disaster stemming from Hurricane Katrina.
When ConocoPhillips, Shell and GX Technologies embarked on their summer 2006 seismic programs in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas it seemed that the various stakeholders in the Arctic offshore environment had reached acceptable agreements on the issues relating to the potential impact of seismic on mar...
CAMDEN Land north of Molyneaux Road is one of Camden s traditional hunting grounds, and is the boundary between land where firearms discharge is allowed and where it is prohibited.
If over the next few days the rain deities smile on us with substantial precipitation - not flood-level stuff, mind you, but enough to color the rivers just a little and give those coho waiting in the bay a sniff of fresh, cool water - then by the middle of next week we should be up to our arm pits in silvers, which would bring a huge sigh of relief from the folks running the big Everett Coho
