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Posted by Eric Stone | Feb 17, 2021 The 32-foot gillnetter F/V Deja Vu sails in August 2020 near Metlakatla. (Photo: Johon Atkinson) A federal lawsuit arguing that tribal members of the state’s sole Native reservation shouldn’t need state permits to fish outside the reserve’s marine boundaries was dismissed Wednesday.   Metlakatla Indian Community sued Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration last year. Lawyers for the tribe said the 1891 federal law that established the Annette Islands Reserve was intended to create a self-sustaining community — and that the right to fish in waters wit...

Published: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 David Bernhardt. Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News Interior Secretary David Bernhardt on Capitol Hill in March. Francis Chung/E&E News Interior Secretary David Bernhardt started off 2020 empowering his most controversial public lands deputy, a move that a federal judge later deemed "unlawful." He's ending the year in quarantine, having tested positive for COVID-19. In between these bleak-sounding bookends, the 51-year-old Bernhardt rewrote how the Interior Department works. While the results get mixed reviews, and in some cases may get erased by the ...