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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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