Posts by Davis Hovey

Two Western Alaskans spoke out about climate change yesterday as part of a group of 16 young people currently suing the State of Alaska. The case, Sinnok vs. Alaska, was brought before the Alaska Supreme Court as the justices decide whether or not to allow the lawsuit to move forward. Andrew Welle and Brad De Noble…

Several communities in the Norton Sound region experienced coastal flooding over the weekend, although the high water didn’t do as much damage as originally forecast. Coastal flooding occurs when dry land is submerged under ocean water. According to coastal flood warnings from the National Weather Service, the water level was forecast to rise five to…

Moose nutrition throughout the Seward Peninsula is currently the focus of one of the Alaska Department of Fish & Game’s latest research projects. Results from this project could help ADF&G better respond to declining moose populations in Unit 22D. The four-year study started in the fall of 2017 by setting up radio-tracking collars on moose…

According to a recently released recap from the Department of Fish & Game, crabbing in the Norton Sound this year was underwhelming in many ways. At the beginning of 2019, ADF&G set the region’s lowest guideline harvest level in 20 years, poor ice conditions and early sea ice loss prevented many from crabbing in the…

Last week, Graphite One announced this season’s drilling program has begun in the Kigluaik mountains, less than 60 miles north of Nome. This is one part of the pre-feasibility process which will provide more information about the Graphite Creek deposit for the proposed mining project. According to a press release from the company, “approximately 800…

As Monday’s reporting deadline looms for this season’s Unit 22 moose hunters, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G) recapped the fall 2019 RM840 hunt and shared some context on the overall health of the moose population on the Seward Peninsula. KNOM’s Davis Hovey reports: “It went well. Seasons were relatively brief in comparison…

Researchers and Western Alaskans alike want to know more about Pacific cod’s movements as they swim from the Southern Bering Sea into the Northern. In a unique collaboration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries worked with fishermen in Savoonga to tag and track cod within the drastically changing Bering Sea ecosystem. KNOM’s Davis Hovey…

Plans to get a rock quarry project off the ground in Elim have hit a funding road block. So far, the projected site has been selected 20 miles southwest of the community and the sample test results on the project’s dimensional stone and rip-rap show promise. Additionally, Morris Nakaruk, the Vice President of the local…

A pair of Nome brothers have been named the keynote speakers for this year’s Elders and Youth Conference, taking place next month in Fairbanks. Oliver Tusagvik and Wilson Mungnak Hoogendorn were the first to summit Denali this season back in May. The brothers, both in their early 20s, were featured on KTVA’s Frontiers with Rhonda McBride…

Biologists say early retreating sea ice is potentially causing vegetation productivity changes on the tundra across Alaska and the Arctic.