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Norton Bay Climate Risk Assessment Project
Photo Credit: Hal Shepherd Introduction In 2010, the Norton Bay Watershed Council (NBWC) and Native Villages of Elim, Koyuk, Unalakleet,...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Jul 23, 20253 min read
North Bering Sea Tribal Climate Self Determination Project
Photo Credit: Hal Shepherd The Norton Bay Watershed Council has undertaken this project to address the Bureau of Ocean Energy...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Jul 23, 20251 min read
Norton Bay Watershed Ocean and Coastal Management Plan
Protecting subsistence culture & resources Norton Bay, Alaska at Sunrise - Photo Credit: Leigh Takak (2020) Introduction The Inupiat and...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Jul 23, 20252 min read
The Native Village of Elim's Tubutulik River Watershed Vulnerability & Risk Assessment for Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen (DO) and Stream Flow (Assessment) is designed to establish the current baseline
Golovin, Alaska - Photo Credit: Emily Murray (2022) On March 29th, 2024, the Norton Bay Watershed Council held a session at the Alaska...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Jul 23, 20251 min read
Mining Exploration Resurfaces at Tubutulik River
Mining companies are once again turning their attention to rich uranium deposits located at the headwaters of the Tubutulik River near...
Hal Shepherd
Jul 23, 20254 min read
Native Village of Elim's Tubutulik River Watershed Vulnerability & Risk Assessment for Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen and Stream Flow
The Native Village of Elim's Tubutulik River Watershed Vulnerability & Risk Assessment for Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen (DO) and Stream...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Jul 23, 20252 min read
House Budget Reconciliation Cuts Out the Heart of Alaska
The Trump administration's proposal for the 2026 Reconciliation Bill currently on the House Floor would slash the Department of...
Hal Shepherd
May 23, 20253 min read
Congress is Selling Out America's Public Lands and Waters
Congressional Republicans are moving to sell out public lands and waters to Big Oil campaign donors and other Wall Street insiders to...
Hal Shepherd
May 14, 20253 min read
Government by Revenge – Part 3 – Eliminating Environmental Analysis
The Imuruk Basin is on the brink of becoming a sacrificial area in the Nation’s pursuit of reduced carbon emissions and as the primary...
Hal Shepherd
May 8, 20254 min read
Public Lands Sell Off – Part 2: Burgum Hands Management of Interior to DOGE
The first Trump administration's chaotic public lands management strategy was marked by the appointment of controversial former...
Hal Shepherd
Apr 28, 20254 min read
Tribes Rally for Protection of Water from Mining Activity
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race celebrates the beautiful wild areas of Alaska, including the final leg of the race, which runs along...
Hal Shepherd
Feb 27, 20255 min read
NBWC Applauds the Biden Administration’s Protection of 28M Acres of Alaska D-1 Lands
August 29, 2024 The Norton Bay Watershed Council (NBWC) applauds the Biden Administration's protection of 28 million acres of Alaska D-1...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Aug 29, 20242 min read
Tiny Native Village Community Faces Efforts to Turn River into Mining District
It could be the largest uranium deposit, or, you know, cluster of deposits on American soil, and a bunch of these could be land on the...
Hal Shepherd
Aug 1, 20244 min read
BLM Retains Protections for 28 Million Acres of Alaska D1 Lands
July 4, 2024 ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — The Norton Bay Watershed Council (NBWC) applauds the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for its recent...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Jul 4, 20243 min read
New economic reports show AIDEA fails at creating jobs, succeeds at eluding legislative oversight
April 15, 2024 The following April 11, 2024 press release is reprinted with the permission of Salmon State. JUNEAU, ALASKA — Three new...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Apr 14, 20245 min read
Unprecedented Opportunity to Protect 28 Million Acres of Alaska Public Land
January 18, 2024 These 28 million acres represent some of the largest intact landscapes left in the country. ~ Emily Murray, Elim Alaska...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Jan 18, 20244 min read
Protect the Imuruk Basin Watershed
December 16, 2023 The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) recently awarded a $37.5 million grant to Graphite One, a Canadian mining company,...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Dec 16, 20232 min read
Ambler Road Threatens a Way of Life for Alaska Native Communities
December 7, 2023 (Updated September 8, 2025) Proposed routes for the Ambler Road ~ Photo NPS The Ambler Industrial Access Road, or Ambler...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Dec 7, 20233 min read
State’s Claim to Ownership of Kuskokwim River Threatens Local Communities and Salmon
October 5, 2023 By: Hal Shepherd. Shepherd Alaska October 5th, 2023. “We should be asking them why want to take away a major means of...
Hal Shepherd
Oct 5, 20234 min read
Instream Flow Water Reservations
Dunleavy Administration Won’t Give-Up on Efforts to Commodify Alaska Rivers and Streams June 7, 2026 Windy Cove at the Mouth of Hot Springs Creek By ensuring that resources are managed for the long-term benefit of all Alaskans rather than private monopolies, Alaska’s Constitution reflects one of the most progressive approaches to environmental stewardship in the United States. Article VIII for example, sets forth the State’s constitutional framework for the development, conse
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Jun 28, 20237 min read
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