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Clam Gulch, Alaska. (File / Al Grillo / AP)

BLOG -Seldom spoken truth in subsistence battle: How unproductive Alaska lands really are

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 10:30
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Alaska’s long, bitter subsistence battle is back in the news again. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, last week called a hearing

Rosita Worl, chair of the Alaska Federation of Natives’ Subsistence Committee, addresses the topic of traditional food gathering during the 2012 Alaska Federation of Natives convention. "The state's subsistence laws have effectively been gutted," she told Congress on Thursday. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch

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Alaska subsistence issues raised before US Senate

Pat Forgey, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Friday, September 20, 2013 at 13:37
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Old battles over subsistence resurfaced in the U.S. Senate Thursday, as state officials and Native leaders sought allies in the

Lynx are one of the animals covered in the new legislation. (Christina Quicler / AFP)

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European Commission to review Sweden’s wolf legislation

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, September 16, 2013 at 09:20
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The European Commission is to review the Swedish government’s proposed legislation on wolves and other predators. The controversial proposal says

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Sweden to allow culling of wild wolves

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 11:38
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Sweden’s Minister of Environment Lena Ek is prepared to allow licensed hunts for wild wolves and other predators in

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VIDEO – Changing Sea Ice: The Ripple Effect

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, September 9, 2013 at 09:02
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Anthropologist Lene Kielsen Holm, an Inuk (Inuit) from Greenland, talks about the importance of sea ice in Inuit culture and

Anthrax probably killed more bison than surveyors counted, but their carcasses may be in wooded areas and weren't found by crews. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

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Bison herd in Canada’s N.W.T. half the size of last year’s

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 29, 2013 at 11:26
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A survey of bison in the Fort Providence area of Canada’s Northwest Territories estimates the population is less than half

The department said some of the meat wasted was suitable for food, including legs above the knee, rump, ribs and backstraps. (N.W.T. Department of Environment and Natural Resources)

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Elder in Canada’s N.W.T. fined for wasting caribou meat

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 09:26
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A Tlicho elder in Canada’s Northwest Territories has paid a $575 fine for wasting meat stemming from a recent incident

Hunters from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, succeeded in catching a bowhead whale Tuesday afternoon near the historic whaling station at Kekerten Island in Cumberland Sound. (Photo courtesy of Timiusie Dialla / CBC.ca)

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Pangnirtung, Nunavut lands its bowhead whale

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at 15:03
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There were celebrations in Pangnirtung, a predominantly Inuit community, in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, after hunters succeeded in

Walrus carcasses hanging to dry in the St. Lawrence island village of Gambell. August 29, 2012. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)

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Fewer walrus for hunters in remote Alaska

Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Monday, August 5, 2013 at 08:59
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Miserable weather and thick, almost unnavigable sea ice have led to a walrus shortage on remote St. Lawrence Island. Savoonga

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Hunters can shoot over 300 bears in Sweden’s autumn hunt

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 10:20
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Hunters will be allowed to shoot up to 305 bears in Sweden, almost one tenth of the total population, reports

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Finland aims to reduce lynx population

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 10:03
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The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry wants to add a number of species to hunters’ hit lists – including endangered

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Nunavut summit to discuss caribou decline

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 11:25
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A major caribou workshop begins today in Iqaluit, the capital city of Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut. It will

(Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Alaska Dispatch)

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Commentary: Why close a swath of Alaska if outsiders seldom hunt there anyway?

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 11:13
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What sounds like a controversial ban that would prevent most Alaskans, not to mention all other Americans, from hunting caribou

Caribou may be affected by changes in their food sources and migration paths.(The Canadian Press)

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Canada’s N.W.T. may allow locals limited caribou hunt

CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 5, 2013 at 10:08
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Resident hunters in Canada’s Northwest Territories may be allowed to take one bull caribou this coming winter season. The territorial

A seal in eastern Sweden. (Kjell Henning / Scanpix Sweden / AFP )

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Should Sweden authorize a licensed seal hunt?

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 14:52
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The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has asked the government to authorize a seal hunt to limit a growing seal population