Check out the links below to read about Alaska’s wildlife and habitat in the news during May 2022!
Bristol Bay eager to see EPA working on permanent protections, look forward to seeing process finalized before the end of 2022 | United Tribes of Bristol Bay, Alannah Hurley
How wildlife bridges over highways make animals- and people- safer | National Geographic, Starre Vartan
RAD Provides Options for Land Managers to Keep Pace as Climate Change Rapidly Transforms Wildlife Habitat | U.S. Fish & Wildlife News, Olivia Gieger, Kaitlyn Landfield, Ansley Nash, and Mason Wheatley
Walruses are skittish. That’s why this scientist is using drones to count them | Alaska Public Media, Casey Grove
Avian influenza’s arrival in Alaska signals danger for other parts of the world | Alaska Public Media, Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon
EPA proposes restrictions in fight over Alaska mine | Washington Post, Becky Bohrer
EPA proposes to veto Pebble Mine to protect salmon-rich Bristol Bay | Alaska Public Media, Liz Ruskin
Clam Gulch and Ninilchik beaches will remain closed to clamming for now | Alaska Public Media, Sabine Poux, KDLL
East Cook Inlet clamming to remain closed again this summer as population still lags | Anchorage Daily News, Morgan Krakow
Willows and Moose | Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game, Sanaa Siddiqi
Bird Box Tips | Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game, Arin Underwood
Swallows in Boxes | Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game, Riley Woodford
Boxes for Birds and Bats; Nurseries for nesters and refuges for roosting | Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game, Arin Underwood
Good News for Alaska Bats | Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game, Riley Woodford
Lazy Bears and Confused Birds: What a Warming Planet Means for Wildlife | Columbia Climate School, David J. Craig
Victory! Court upholds prohibition of brown bear baiting in the Kenai refuge | Alaska Wildlife Alliance, Nicole Schmitt
Tangled in fishing line: A late-night magpie rescue in Anchorage’s Government Hill neighborhood | Anchorage Daily News, Morgan Krakow
Diggers could soon return to East Cook Inlet for razor clam harvest | Anchorage Daily News, Morgan Krakow
Reality TV star accused of illegally hunting bears in Alaska | Alaska Public Media, Sabine Poux
3 men get fines, prison and park ban for wading into Alaska’s Brooks River while viewing famous bears | Anchorage Daily News, Zaz Hollander
As snow melts, Interior Alaska biologists tally number of winter-killed wildlife | Alaska Public Media, Tim Ellis/KUAC Fairbanks
Federal government sues state over Kuskokwim salmon fishing rules | KTOO, Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media
An orphaned owl returns to the Anchorage wilds | Anchorage Daily News, Marc Lester
Citizen science program uses artificial intelligence to track thousands of humpback whales | Alaska Public Media, Angela Denning, KFSK
Alaska’s bird flu outbreak is taking an especially heavy toll on eagles and other wild birds | Anchorage Daily News, Annie Berman
Bird flu detected in red fox and eagles found dead in Unalaska | KTOO, Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media
OPINION: Speaking up on subsistence, even in the face of an industrial juggernaut | Anchorage Daily News, Seth Kantner
For some Alaskans, thawing permafrost brings instability, rising costs and a need to adapt | Anchorage Daily News, Lois Parshley, Grist
The Biden Administration Cancels Its Offshore Drilling Plan for Alaska’s Cook Inlet—Let’s Keep It Off the Books | Natural Resources Defense Council, Susan Cosier
Alaska Beluga Monitoring Program Citizen Science | NOAA Fisheries
