Photo credit: Katrina Liebich, USFWS
The traditional subsistence fishing and hunting practices of Native Villages in the Norton Bay watershed area are under threat due to climate change and industrial development. This not only endangers their economy and water rights but also poses a serious threat to their way of life.
Anti-Mining demonstration, NBWC Worked with Students in Elim Against Uranium (Photo credit: Hal)
wildlife die-off (photo credit: Sara Germain, Alaska Department of Fish and Game; Hal)
tribes depend on subsistence hunting and fishing as sources of nutrition and cultural practices (photo credit: NPS)
⎯ Emily Murray, Vice President
Tribal members share information on the prairie. (Photo credit: NPS)
The Council monitors and researches water quality and quantity in the Norton Bay watershed, as well as the impacts of climate change on the region's water resources.
The Council develops and implements watershed restoration projects and collaborates with local tribal communities to create effective water resource management strategies.
The Council provides education and outreach to increase awareness about the importance of protecting water resources, and advocates for the protection of the Norton Bay watershed at the local, state, and federal levels.
Water quality research at tubutulik river (Photo credit: Ken Takak)
Public gathering with the council members and communities (Photo credit: Hal)
Protecting Subsistence Resources in the Imuruk Basin (Updated)
Project type
The Norton Bay Watershed Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, Instream Flow and Policy Project
Project type
Local traditional knowledge is critical to protecting our water resources.
Your support is vital to the council's efforts to monitor, restore, and advocate for water rights in the Norton Bay watershed. Your donation would go to assist the watershed council to monitor the health of our rivers and the protection of subsistence and traditional resources.
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