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(Olivia Ebertz/KYUK) People on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers are expecting another dismal year for harvesting salmon, the food that used to fill their smokehouses and freezers. It’s a disaster ...
The management strategy for waters within the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge (YDNWR) is nearly identical to that seen ...
After years of assessments, a major step forward in riverbank stabilization for the Kuskokwim Delta coastal community has ...
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Saving sinking homes
In Nunapitchuk, for example, water damage during the 2020 floods rendered several homes uninhabitable, forcing some displaced ...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued a major disaster declaration for spring flooding along the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers, ordering federal funding for recovery efforts.
The Kuskokwim and neighboring Yukon Rivers form one of the largest deltas in the world, covering more than 50,000 square miles of wetlands, tundra, and mountains in Southwest Alaska, equal to ...
Central to the question of Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (AYK) chum salmon conservation is identifying at what stage salmon fail to survive in their life cycle — at the egg-to-smolt stage, their first ...
Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is one of the nation's most remote regions, stretching across 75,000 square miles of mountains, tundra and coastal wetlands along the Bering Sea. The U.S. Census ...
BETHEL, Alaska (AP) - A dog in western Alaska has been diagnosed with rabies, bringing the total number of recent cases in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta to four. The three foxes and dog were found in ...
Officials with the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp., a tribal health organization for residents of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region in Alaska, are working with consulting firm Arcadis on a $300 ...
BETHEL, Alaska — Democrat Mary Peltola could not wait to get out on the Kuskokwim, the river she grew up on, south of the Yukon and upriver from the Bering Sea. She's pulled gillnets full of ...