A Conversation with Hunter and Conservationist Tia Shoemaker

A Conversation with Hunter and Conservationist ...

Hunting Guide Tia Shoemaker is fighting tooth and nail to ensure future generations will have the opportunity to experience the wilderness of Bristol Bay and the Alaska Peninsula. “We have...

A Conversation with Hunter and Conservationist ...

Hunting Guide Tia Shoemaker is fighting tooth and nail to ensure future generations will have the opportunity to experience the wilderness of Bristol Bay and the Alaska Peninsula. “We have...

Melanie Brown: Bristol Bay Salmon Mama

Melanie Brown: Bristol Bay Salmon Mama

When Melanie Brown was 10 years old, her mom decided it was time for her to begin fishing the family’s setnet site on the Naknek River in Bristol Bay.  “It...

Melanie Brown: Bristol Bay Salmon Mama

When Melanie Brown was 10 years old, her mom decided it was time for her to begin fishing the family’s setnet site on the Naknek River in Bristol Bay.  “It...

Monkey Boats and Sailboats

Monkey Boats and Sailboats

Bringing a Bristol Bay Relic Back to Life  When Jeffery and Christine Smith were shown the David B, an ancient Bristol Bay tug, known as a monkey boat, it appeared...

Monkey Boats and Sailboats

Bringing a Bristol Bay Relic Back to Life  When Jeffery and Christine Smith were shown the David B, an ancient Bristol Bay tug, known as a monkey boat, it appeared...

Two Alaskan fisherman sit on a gillnet full of salmon on their commercial fishing boat

Man of Salmon

An Interview with Triston Chaney  Triston Chaney, a Yupik and Athabaskan resident of Dillingham, began fishing on his grandpa’s gillnetter in Bristol Bay when he was nine years old. He...

Man of Salmon

An Interview with Triston Chaney  Triston Chaney, a Yupik and Athabaskan resident of Dillingham, began fishing on his grandpa’s gillnetter in Bristol Bay when he was nine years old. He...

Pride of Bristol Bay, Wildly Devoted

Pride of Bristol Bay, Wildly Devoted

Woven into the landscape and culture of Bristol Bay is the principle of true sustainability. Two hundred generations have made their home in Bristol Bay, and embraced this splendid wild...

Pride of Bristol Bay, Wildly Devoted

Woven into the landscape and culture of Bristol Bay is the principle of true sustainability. Two hundred generations have made their home in Bristol Bay, and embraced this splendid wild...

Pebble Mine & Alaska Native People

Pebble Mine & Alaska Native People

For generations, Alaska Native people have fished and hunted Bristol Bay according to their traditional way of life, and seek to maintain these traditions for generations to come. Some 7,500 people...

Pebble Mine & Alaska Native People

For generations, Alaska Native people have fished and hunted Bristol Bay according to their traditional way of life, and seek to maintain these traditions for generations to come. Some 7,500 people...

Pride of Bristol Bay: The bears of McNeil and the Pebble Mine project

Pride of Bristol Bay: The bears of McNeil and t...

They’re on a collision course. In the late 1990s, Drew Hamilton followed an old-timer who lived on a homestead in Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park, on the Alaska Peninsula, to...

Pride of Bristol Bay: The bears of McNeil and t...

They’re on a collision course. In the late 1990s, Drew Hamilton followed an old-timer who lived on a homestead in Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park, on the Alaska Peninsula, to...