...stomach, which clogged her airway, after drinking too much homebrew, according to the Anchorage Daily News.Many Lower Yukon River villages in western Alaska outlaw alcohol but long have struggled with homebrew abuse as residents improvise with...
...politics.In 1963, '64, and '65 it was my privilege to be the only Caucasian in the king salmon fishery on the Lower Yukon River. There were some days from those years on the Lower Yukon that were so full of light that they still sparkle through...
FAIRBANKS - Yukon River king salmon fishermen hoping for a change from last year's dismal returns are getting bad news. State and federal biologists say the 2012 king salmon run may be worse. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game and U.S.
...question."The Western Arctic Herd ranges over a 140,000 square-mile area bounded by the Arctic Ocean, the lower Yukon River and the trans-Alaska pipeline. About 40 communities and 13,000 people live within this range. For the indigenous...
...walrus hunting, grave sites, village scenes and indoor scenes taken in the Arctic, Kenai Peninsula, Kuskokwim and lower Yukon rivers, Saint Lawrence Island and other cities, towns, and villages in Alaska. Averill Thayer had a distinguished career...
...other residents of Mountain Village always have counted on catching salmon to eat all winter at their camps along the lower Yukon River. Though Wilde doesn't sell or trade the fish he catches, he said it's understandable. "Today it's not like...
...Western Alaska last year. Yukon kings are running about two weeks later than normal due to a late breakup on the lower Yukon River, the result of a cool spring and heavier-than-usual pack ice, biologists said. Biologists caught the first...
...conservation of healthy populations of wildlife. The Kuskokwim moratorium is based on a similar moratorium on the lower Yukon River downstream from Mountain Village. Yukon villagers volunteered to stop hunting there between 1988 and 1994. That...
...and its approximately 4,500 residents with a Senate district that extends all the way to Russian Village on the lower Yukon River and Arctic Village 100 miles north of Fairbanks. "We don't deal with the people in that area on any basis, any...
...of Fish and Game. This vast herd ranges over a 140,000-square-mile area bounded by the Arctic Ocean, the lower Yukon River and the trans-Alaska pipeline. About 40 communities and 13,000 people are located within the range of the herd...
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