The state argues that a federal board exceeded its authority by granting an emergency hunt to a tribe in a remote part of Alaska during the onset of the pandemic.

Seal hunting in Glacier Bay in 1899. Click image for a larger view. In Alaska today, subsistence continues to be an important practice. Local foods, from sources close at hand, are often cheaper ...

Alaska will not hold an emperor goose hunt for the 2025-2026 season—and potentially for years to come. Both subsistence and ...

Under that law, Noatak National Preserve in Northwest Alaska is open to any hunter with a state license, with a priority given to local rural Alaskans hunting and fishing for subsistence, to meet ...

For years, the Ketchikan Indian Community has argued that Ketchikan’s nonrural designation prevented tribal citizens from ...

The biggest loss of hunting access in Alaska, as we mentioned, was when the Federal Subsistence Board closed 60-million acres of public land to everyone but qualified local subsistence caribou hunters ...

These practices are neither “sport hunting,” nor “subsistence hunting”; they ... including Wilderness Watch and Alaska Wilderness League, together with the dedicated lawyers at ...

On the President’s first day in office, January 20, the White House released Executive Order 14153, titled “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary ...

Many of the public comments focused on fish and wildlife protection, something vital to Alaska Native communities that still rely on the subsistence hunt. The BLM said it would taking steps to ...

The Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage celebrates 25 years of educating visitors about Native cultures, with recent ...