"Bristol Bay Salmon Are in Hot Water"
"This past summer, high water temperatures contributed to the deaths of more than 100,000 salmon."
Source: Hakai, 09/12/2019
Alaska and Hawaii
Who Wins in Latest Expansion of Fishing, Hunting at National Refuges, Fisheries?
A new rule expands hunting and fishing in National Wildlife Refuges and fish hatcheries, and that means potential impacts on critically important public policy around fish and wildlife conservation. The latest TipSheet offers up story ideas and resources for local coverage of the story.
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"Trump Pushes To Allow New Logging In Alaska’s Tongass National Forest"
"President Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska’s 16.7-million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago, according to three people briefed on the issue, after privately discussing the matter with the state’s governor aboard Air Force One."
Source: Washington Post, 08/28/2019
On Remote Hawaiian Islands, Seeing What Few Ever See
There’s nothing like firsthand reporting, even if it means taking a freighter 1,300 miles to the remotest edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago to visit a newly expanded marine national monument. The latest EJ InSights recounts two journalists’ island-hopping journey and their efforts to capture and organize extensive multimedia for an eventual 14-part package. Plus, why they froze their underwear.
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"Bristol Bay: EPA Deleted Scientists' Concerns About Pebble Analysis"
"EPA scientists wanted their agency to ask for a new environmental review of the proposed Pebble mine project but were overridden by political staffers, according to several sources and a key document obtained by E&E News."
Source: Greenwire, 08/19/2019
"The Rat Spill"
"A tiny Alaskan island faces a threat as deadly as an oil spill — rats."
Source: Hakai, 08/14/2019
"Conservation Groups Sue To Block Road In Alaska Refuge"
"Nine conservation groups on Wednesday sued the U.S. Interior Department over its latest proposed land trade that could lead to a road through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska."
Source: AP, 08/08/2019
Intrepid Biologists Brought Natural Balance Back to Aleutian Islands
"To save birds such as the cackling goose, first the foxes had to go."
Source: Atlas Obscura, 08/07/2019
"Offshore Drilling: NOAA Greenlights Alaska Whale Harassment"
"A Texas driller with patchy regulatory history will be permitted thousands of allowances for injury or harassment of humpback whales, harbor seals and other marine life as it explores for oil in Cook Inlet, Alaska."
Source: Greenwire, 08/01/2019
"Alaska’s Sweltering Summer Is ‘Basically Off The Charts’"
"Steve Perrins didn’t see the lightning, but he couldn’t miss the smoke that followed. It was around dinnertime on July 23 at Alaska’s oldest hunting lodge, nestled in the wilderness more than 100 miles northwest of Anchorage. What began as a quiet evening at the Rainy Pass Lodge soon turned frantic as Alaska’s latest wildfire spread fast."
Source: Washington Post, 08/01/2019
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