Odd time of year for seals to be eating herring.
Ringed seal (Phoca hispida) found with jelly-like meat texture and thin skin near the armpit and ribcage.
Summer rain affecting subsistence food preservation.
Resident becomes sick after consuming oysters and wonders what is being done to prevent future outbreaks of V parahaemolyticus, this new climate related illness in Alaska.
Commercial and Subsistence Harvest
Abundant berry harvest this year in southcentral Alaska
Climate change is effecting the people of the Solomon Islands in many ways. Sea level rise is a major driver.
Birch leaves bud early.
Warm temperatures drive emergence of early willow buds, pollen and honey bee activity.
Drought and high temperatures have dried the creek and caused thousands of pink salmon and Dolly Varden to die before they could spawn. The event raises questions about vulnerability of area salmon streams to climate change, and for local residents food security.
A moose was seen with some of its fur missing.
Warm weather has made for unsafe traveling conditions, including a snowmachine race.
By this time of the year, we usually have 2-3 miles of shore-fast ice that sticks to our beach. We as a village have not done our winter harvest of seals and walrus, and we are worried that we will not be able to bowhead whale hunt.
11-18-15 Bearded seal with hair loss - Shishmaref, Alaska, USA
11-13-14 Unseasonable warm - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA
We are spotting dead baby 'spotted' and 'ringed' seals washing up on the beach with no signs of lesions or signs of gun shots.
There has been a lack of snow in the Golovin area ever since the January 2014 warm spell.
1-26-14 Ice disrupts subsistence - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA
1-20-14 Snow then rain - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA
1-3-14 Where is the snow - Solomon, Alaska, USA
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