tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post4627896246172928061..comments2024-03-23T08:51:09.577-08:00Comments on Progressive Alaska: Saturday Progressive Alaska Blog Roundup - March 7, 2009 - Science ReportingPhilip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-24642635717737713622009-03-08T19:31:00.000-08:002009-03-08T19:31:00.000-08:00Phil,I agree that a large part of the focus needs ...Phil,<BR/><BR/>I agree that a large part of the focus needs to be on rebuilding salmon stocks on the Yukon. Yukon salmon can play a major part in reviving some cash economy to the region. <BR/><BR/>It seems that people are focusing only on the subsistence angle. I agree that local fish and game is important. But since the local people are also participating in the world economy through their dependence on oil products to heat their homes, run their boats, 4-wheelers and snow machines they need cash as well.<BR/><BR/>Commercial fishing is a good possibility. So is tourism and sports fishing and hunting. Many of the first peoples in Canada take advantage of their location to guide sports fishers and hunters. The game and sports fish, (shee fish is a great resource), could be managed for their benefit in this way.<BR/><BR/>The notion that only the sport hunters are calling for predator control is evidence of naivity. Subsistence hunters in the interior note the need as well.<BR/><BR/><I>holikachuk</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-22636203525720571222009-03-08T09:03:00.000-08:002009-03-08T09:03:00.000-08:00Their still after Rick! Just saw this ADN:UA profe...Their still after Rick! Just saw this ADN:<BR/>UA professor in danger of losing federal funding<BR/>http://www.adn.com/news/education/story/714850.html<BR/><BR/>Does anyone know WHO in the Obama administration or where to write to stop this harassment of this man?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-38339075470442069092009-03-08T08:54:00.000-08:002009-03-08T08:54:00.000-08:00That was a great polar bear article also. Its clea...That was a great polar bear article also. Its clean GINO is letting Big oil/mining get in the way of "what's best for Alaska".<BR/>Alaska is the last Frontier! You can't let that happen!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-4029938973751341962009-03-08T08:46:00.000-08:002009-03-08T08:46:00.000-08:00I posted this yesterday on mudflats, to AKM post r...I posted this yesterday on mudflats, to AKM post re: EVS.<BR/>"I’m reading this book called “Plant Spirit Shamanism” and they are having a interview with a Andean curandera(Medicine man/Elder)…and this paragraph stood out, re: yesterday’s blog about GINO’s disrespect of Nick Tucker & Villager’s and today’s blog EVS. Nature vs. Big oil.<BR/>“As we know all gods come through nature. But what has become of Western religion? Materialism, loss of identity,loss of customs. There is so much struggle today. People are no longer thinking about nature, but about money and the help they need. They have become completely insecure. Imagine if we went to live in nature again, surrounded by mountains, or in the rain forest, how much more healing it would be. Yet the tendency today is for everybody to want to move into cities, to live like American’s, build motorways. Its sad.”<BR/><BR/>The interview goes on, but I think its relevant to what GINO is trying to do to the Villages have them leave, for “jobs on the slope/big oil” Mining (Pebblemine) and is applicable to all the people and animals who suffered through EVS. And even though it happened in Alaska we all suffer, its like a ripple effect that affects us all one way or another……"<BR/>I am glad PO is trying to appoint REAL scientists to evaluate the environmental situation, and not "paid mouthpieces"<BR/>Here is something awesome I heard the other day.<BR/><B>Alaska Natives weigh in on offshore drilling with the Obama Administration</B><BR/>http://aprn.org/2009/03/04/alaska-natives-weigh-in-on-offshore-drilling-with-the-obama-administration/<BR/><BR/>And yes, we need to keep listening to the Elders, I have said this before...the only people who are bitching about wolves and bears affecting the caribou/moose are sport game hunters & GINO!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-39875525983771647182009-03-08T07:30:00.000-08:002009-03-08T07:30:00.000-08:00"Being as she and her backers represent something ..."Being as she and her backers represent something that can do more harm than good at this point to Alaska's rural residents, I'm not out there daring her people to step up efforts to help Emmonak or Nunam Iqua."<BR/><BR/>Good point. I had not thought of that angle. Since most of Palin's public comments on the rural crisis focus on changing their lifestyles, she could indeed do more harm than good.<BR/><BR/>Excellent essay - saying yes to science!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com