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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has extended its public comment period for proposed changes in land management rules in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Indian Country headlines for Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve is full of wildflowers and wildlife. Alaska Wilderness League This issue brief is part of a series outlining public lands in Alaska that are in danger of losing protection. Overview Since 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service have advanced five efforts that would dramatically alter protections for some 60 million acres of federally managed land in Alaska. If fully enacted, the policies and decisions outlined in those proposed and finalized plans would open vast stretches of the Bering Sea-Western Interior, Tongass Nation...
How Bob Stephenson Incorporated Indigenous Knowledge Systems in His Work December 11, 2020 In the fall of 1975 I read a scientific report that made me sit up straight in my chair. It was entitled “The Eskimo Hunter’s View of Wolf Ecology and Behavior” and appeared in a peer-reviewed volume of technical papers called The Wild Canids, edited by Michael Fox. At the time I was in the middle of researching a book about wolves, so I read carefully every paper in Fox’s book. The one I regarded as a watershed statement was co-authored by Bob Stephenson and a Nunamiut Eskimo hunter from the c...