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Montana

After historic crash, Yukon River’s iconic king salmon run shows early signs of rebound

  • Max Graham, Northern Journal-Anchorage Press, Alaska Beacon

For the past few years, smokehouses in the Yukon River village of Anvik have sat empty. After salmon populations crashed, dozens of Alaska Native communities along the river faced a stark new reality, one without the fish that fed families and sustained Yup’ik and Athabascan traditions for generations. This summer, though, smoke once again wafted […]

Kansas

Kansas wheat harvest projected to be lowest in decades, adding to agriculture stress

  • Morgan Chilson

TOPEKA — Kansas is on course for its smallest winter wheat harvest since the 1950s, with a July report showing the state’s farmers are expected to produce almost half the number of bushels they did at the same time last year, an expert said.  A July 10 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture projected […]