Subsistence

Safari Club leaders and Alaska Native subsistence advocates have long been at odds over rights to hunt and fish in Alaska. But the sport hunting group reached out to help a group of Native hunters, displaced by October's devastating storm, reconnect to their subsistence culture.

According to a notice published Dec. 15 in the Federal Register, the Interior Department is conducting “a targeted review” of the program mandated by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA).

A collaboration between local organizations is collecting subsistence food donations to support storm-impacted families evacuated to Bethel or living in their home villages.

A tribal organization has been delivering subsistence foods to displaced families in their hotel rooms.

Three lawsuits take aim at a Trump administration-approved land trade that would allow for a road through designated wilderness in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.

A statewide effort to replace lost subsistence harvests is part of the system of aid that organizations are trying to tailor to the needs of Indigenous rural Alaskans.

Many of the Western Alaskan residents displaced by Typhoon Halong also lost their subsistence harvests.

State attorneys had argued for a new interpretation after recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Backyard Buoys, a project that has put real-time ocean data in the hands of Arctic whalers, will soon be making its way to the mouth of the Kuskokwim River.

Both harvesting and egging for Emperor geese are closed this season. Black Brant geese can be harvested, but egging is not permitted.