I am absolutely not dismissing changes to ANILCA or any other legislation here.
It is so important that your connection to this resource be shared in a way that people from Washington, D.C. and other parts of the Country...
What do we do to replace wild food sources, like salmon, when they are in such states of collapse?
Thank you for sharing in ways that are both informative and personal.
We, the end users, the little people, the people that matter, have been silenced, we have been ignored.
It is time for a new path.
I want you to look into that. That is coming from near and dear, from my heart.
I do not have that magic button that can put fish back in the river now.
We just had a hearing in the Indian Affairs Committee on the fentanyl crisis among Alaska Native peoples.
I would just really encourage Senator Lisa Murkowski and the Committee on Indian Affairs that you please govern us for the health and well-b...
Stop allowing the status quo so as to not affect industry harvest to the extent practicable in fisheries management.
The Federal Government must act.
Thank you for sharing in ways that are both informative and personal. I appreciate that a great deal.
Failure to do so will be a death blow to my river, to my people, and our survival, before we go extinct.
Let our Tribes help the federal government, and one another, to address salmon declines, climate change, and the impacts on our communities.
What it really comes down to is how you not only feed your families, but how you keep your culture and traditions alive.
I wish they would close that Area M for five years, and we would see the truth in five years.
In closing, Senator Murkowski, subsistence matters, our villages matter, salmon matters, and our way of life matters.
