🐋🌊 New #research into #Alaska's #BristolBay beluga whales reveals a surprising social strategy. Instead of a few dominant males, these long-lived #whales take a "plenty of #fish in the sea" approach, frequently switching partners to maintain genetic #health.
This flexible mating system helps their small, isolated population avoid inbreeding.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/beluga-whales-sex-lives/
#marinebiology #biology #wildlife #conservation #science #nature #ecology #ocean
November is Native American/Alaska Native Heritage Month! Get our classroom-ready lesson plans and discussion guides for award winning films to make learning about Native American Heritage and World Indigenous Peoples part of your curriculum all year round.
🚂 American Railroad Instructional Guide to explore the impact the Transcontinental Railroad had on the Great Plain Tribes.
🎸 My Music with Rhiannon Giddens to introduce Native American vocalist and lap steel guitarist Pura Fé.
🦈The Wild to encounter a race against time to save wild Alaskan salmon, featuring the Yupik, Dena’ina, and Alutiiq Peoples of Bristol Bay / Iilgayaq.
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #AlaskanNativeHeritageMonth #IndigenousPeoples #Indigenous #Education #Teachers #Homeschooling #Movies #Music #Alaska #SocialStudies #PuraFe #BristolBay
Celebrate #NationalWildlifeDay with film! Join the real-life struggle to save the last fully intact wild salmon system left on Earth with these lessons for documentary film The Wild — new at Journeys in Film! By taking action, students can play a vital role in preserving this rare and valuable resource, as well as the lives of those who depend on the return of this healthy salmon run. For grades 6-12.
https://journeysinfilm.org/film/the-wild/
#Education #StemEducation #Homeschooling #EnvironmentalStudies #TheWild #BristolBay #Alaska #Salmon #Biodiversity #Nature #Environment #Indigenous
[Short Film]: #SandsOfTime: #CoastalErosion in #SouthernAlaska
"This short documentary by Anna Hoover of #BristolBay, #Alaska, presents the realities of coastal erosion by witnessing the experience of Bristol Bay community members. Interviews, local archives, and ancestral knowledge put the circumstances in stark relief, detailing the communities’ adjustments to the retreating coastline."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nhQZrBwQTI&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=6
#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA #AnimalProducts #Fishing #IndigenousPeoplesDay
Training the next generation of fishermen in Bristol Bay
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The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association’s Onboard Drill Conductor Training trained Bristol Bay students in safety, including donning survival suits. Photo by Tav Ammu/Alaska Sea Grant.
Alaska Sea Grant and Bristol Bay Regional Career and Technical Education...
https://alaska-native-news.com/training-the-next-generation-of-fishermen-in-bristol-bay/74182/
#training #bristolbay #alaska #seagrant #fishermen
Alaska Sea Grant and Bristol Bay Regional Career and Technical Education (BBRCTE) teamed up to lead a new two-week hands-on training program for high school-aged prospective commercial fishers. The Commercial Fishing Vessel Services and Maintenance intensive training program was informed by the Food from the Sea project, a needs assessment conducted in 2021–2022, showing that for new commercial fishers, the […]
(Dillingham, Alaska) — Friday, the United Tribes of Bristol Bay, Bristol Bay Native Association, Bristol Bay Native Corporation, Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation, Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association, and Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay jointly moved to intervene in a challenge by Northern Dynasty Minerals and Pebble Limited Partnership to the Environmental Protection Agency’s […]
Peltola Bill Would Nix Pebble Mine
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Alaska's Representative Mary Peltola. Image-APM/Twitter screengrab
WASHINGTON – Wednesday, Representative Mary Peltola (AK-AL) introduced the Bristol Bay Protection Act, new legislation that would codify a 2023 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision to veto the Pebble Mine – a proposed...
https://alaska-native-news.com/peltola-bill-would-nix-pebble-mine/73822/
#peltola #pebble #mine #protection #bristolbay #bill #epa
WASHINGTON – Wednesday, Representative Mary Peltola (AK-AL) introduced the Bristol Bay Protection Act, new legislation that would codify a 2023 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision to veto the Pebble Mine – a proposed copper-gold-molybdenum mining project in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska – under Clean Water Act section 404(c) ,into federal law. “I came to […]
State Asks for More than $700 Billion in Compensation for Federal Taking of State Land in Bristol Bay
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Map showing location of proposed Pebble mine.
(Anchorage, AK) – When the United States tied up 309 square miles of State land in Bristol Bay with new regulations, it broke its contract with the State,...
https://alaska-native-news.com/state-asks-for-more-than-700-billion-in-compensation-for-federal-taking-of-state-land-in-bristol-bay/73051/
#pebble #epa #bristolbay #alaska
(Anchorage, AK) – When the United States tied up 309 square miles of State land in Bristol Bay with new regulations, it broke its contract with the State, violating the Cook Inlet Land Exchange of 1976 and violating the Statehood Act of 1953. Thursday, the state of Alaska filed a complaint in the U.S. Court […]
In a big win for Bristol Bay, the Supreme Court has refused an appeal by Alaska and Pebble Limited Partnership seeking to overturn the EPA’s veto of Pebble Mine that was decided last January. the case, Alaska v United States, was a direct appeal to the...
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