Tag Archives: U.S. Fish and Wildlife

The Buskin River weir is set up during the summer to count mainly pinks, cohos and sockeyes. (Photo by Kavitha George/KMXT) Subsistence fishing for Buskin River coho salmon will reopen at 12:01 am on Thursday, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Federal Subsistence Board. According to Alaska Department of Fish & Game Area Management Biologist James Jackson, both the …

Photo Courtesy of Great Land Trust. Daysha Eaton/KMXT More than 3,000 acres of ecologically rich land on Afognak Island is now protected through a wildlife and recreation corridor. “There has been some logging in the area, but it is fairly minimal,” said Ellen Kazary, Executive Director for  the conservation non-profit, Great Land Trust. “So, you are flying over these impressive …

KEA proposed diversion. (Courtesy of KEA) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Electric Association received a permit to start its Terror Lake Hydroelectric Project expansion, which would increase the lake’s clean energy production. Part of the project includes construction through federal land, which requires a lengthy permitting process with some steps KEA called “duplicative.” It had started on a legislative path to …