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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 222 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 223 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 133 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 74 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 274 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 275 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 28, 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
Jul 31, 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 3, 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 13, 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 4, 20234 min read
Tribes’ Instream Flow Reservation Applications for Streams At-Risk from Graphite One Mine Accepted by DNR
June 28, 2023 NOME – Applications for instream flow reservation permits submitted by the Native Village Traditional Councils of Teller...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Jun 27, 20232 min read
Happy Katie John Day!
May 31, 2023 In 2019 the Alaska State Legislature established May 31 as Katie John Day to observe how the federal “subsistence priority”...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
May 30, 20233 min read
Transition to Green Energy Economy will Require Mining Reform
October 4, 2021 The hard rock mining industry is the single largest source of toxic waste in the United States and has contaminated an...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Oct 3, 20216 min read
Research takes clues from past warming periods to predict what may be in store for the Arctic
May 6, 2021 In an article published this month, Artic Today looks at the research showing what has happened in past periods of global...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
May 5, 20211 min read
Biden Administration Announces Stop to Massive Alaska Lands Give Away
April 16, 2021 The Move Signals a New Area of Cooperation between DOI and Tribally Lead Climate and Land Development monitoring projects...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Apr 15, 20215 min read
Indigenous groups are slowly gaining more say in the management of a swiftly changing northern Bering Sea
February 26, 2021 Under the Biden administration, the reinstatement of the North Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area program gives Tribes...
Norton Bay Watershed Council
Feb 26, 20211 min read
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