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 […]
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 […]
Hot temperatures across western Idaho and southeastern Washington have been heating up river temperatures, which can be dangerous for salmon and steelhead. The Army Corps of Engineers has responded by releasing cold water from the reservoir behind Dworshak Dam. The Clearwater River, near Orofino, had a water temperature of 79.7 degrees on July 25, according […]
As smoke from wildfires in Canada billowed across the central and eastern parts of the United States, President Trump once again demonstrated his utter ignorance of wildfires.
When 26-year-old Tirzah Bryant was a kid, she knew how to watch the cottonwood trees along the Yukon River for the sign that it was time to fish for salmon. “We know that the fish are coming when the cotton’s flying from the cottonwood,” she said. But run collapses and successive fishing closures along the […]
When Stan Zuray began noticing white spots, a mushy texture and a weird “sour watermelon” smell in the Chinook salmon he was pulling from the Yukon River, he knew something was going wrong. That was back in the 1980s. By about 1990, he and others just stopped fishing what he calls “the ass end of […]
One of the frustrations I face as an advocate for forest protection is the continuous stream of wildfire and forest ecology misinformation from government agencies such as the Forest Service and state forestry departments.
