In Southeast Alaska, winter fades and the return of the ooligan (also known as eulachon) in the Unuk River marks the arrival of spring. Ooligan, sm’algyax, is the fish that saves. It forms the basis ...

A consortium of Alaska First Nations is voicing opposition to the Eskay Creek project, a large open-pit gold mine sitting just across the Alaska-Canada border proposed by Skeena Resources (TSX: SKE, ...

“As caretakers, our family’s crest can be seen marked on painted pictoglyphs at the mouth of the Unuk River, as well as at points upstream. The crest has been tested and is thousands of years old. It ...

Louie Wagner empties a net of hooligan into his boat on the Unuk River. (Jack Darrell/KRBD) When hooligan start running in Southeast Alaska at the end of winter, the Wagner family heads to the mouth ...

Eulachon grease meets the tongue with a marine burn, a bracing tang extracted by fermenting great numbers of the smelt-like fish, then simmering and breaking them apart. The process liberates the fish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Unuk River is a A group of Indigenous tribes in Alaska has launched a legal challenge of a gold mine in northwest B.C., a ...

In July, 2014, conservationists and adventurers Ryan Peterson, Travis Rummel, and Gordon Klco dropped into a mountainous fortress of old growth rainforest at the source of the Unuk River in British ...

A group of Southeast Alaska tribes is asking Canada to recognize their right to have a voice in how transboundary lands and waters are treated. They’re asking to be recognized as Participating ...

A group of Alaskan tribes and a B.C. conservation group have come together to launch a lawsuit against a proposed gold and copper mine upstream of two major salmon-bearing rivers. SkeenaWild ...

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