Sea otters are critical players in marine ecosystems and are a keystone species, meaning they have a profound effect on their ...

A devastating sea star plague triggered an unexpected ecological shift, creating a mussel boom that sea otters turned into a ...

Of the Kiks.adi Clan of Sitka, Ixt’Ik’Eesh has been harvesting herring fish eggs for most of his life. His earliest ...

California sea otters (a.k.a. southern sea otters, distinct from the northern Pacific subspecies found from Washington to Alaska) were nearly wiped out by the turn of the 20th century. An ...

Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

Seth Kantner is a commercial fisherman, wildlife photographer, wilderness guide and is the author of the best-selling novel ...

Skin sewing, or hide sewing, and bead work are vital art forms in Southeast Alaska’s Lingít culture. Pavlik, who is from ...

Alaska’s public lands and waters are used ... They spoke on topics from sea otter management, to gillnetting on the Stikine River, to herring. Ultimately, all of those topics came from who ...

“At first I was overwhelmed, like a deer in the headlights. Then I watched folks go up and give testimony and change outcomes ...