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• Tribes worry over lower Columbia gorge coho runs with forest fires

  06-09-2017 23:54 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Eagle Creek fire is burning in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area near Cascade Locks, Oregon. (Photo courtesy InciWeb Incident Information System/National Wildfire Coordinating Group)
  https://cpa.ds.npr.org/northwestnews/audio/2017/09/090617AK_FireFish_web.mp3The forest fires raging in the Columbia River Gorge are unlikely to disturb adult coho salmon, right now.
  But Northwest tribal fishers are worried about what will happen in the fall.
  Tribes are particularly concerned with a d
  
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• Petersburg Assembly OKs agreement on scrap metal shipment

  06-09-2017 23:00 via ktoo.org
  Scrap metal and junk cars are piled up at Petersburg’s landfill this month. (Photo by Joe Viechnicki/KFSK)
  Petersburg Borough Assembly approved Tuesday a preliminary agreement for shipping out recycled metal and junked vehicles.
  The agreement is with the giant garbage and recycling company Waste Management and is the first step to actually sending collected scrap metal and cars out of town.
  The borough’s public works director Karl Hagerman said the company is waiting until it can sel
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, September 6, 2017

  06-09-2017 22:53 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/noon090617.mp3In this newscast:
  Tribal environmental conference is now underway in Wrangell,
  Arctic Council working group is currently meeting in Bethel,
  Another slide hits a cruise ship dock in Skagway, and
  Alaska files friend of the court brief in Wisconsin redistricting case.
  
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• Community members, archaeologists race against time at Nunalleq

  06-09-2017 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Archeologists, tribal leaders and volunteers are racing against time to recover as many artifacts as they can from Nunalleq, an ancient village along the coast outside of Quinhagak. This summer, volunteers found an average of 100-200 artifacts a day. (Photo by Teresa Cotsirilos/KYUK)
  It’s been eight years since a small team began excavating an ancient village outside of Quinhagak.
  Now, archeologists and tribal leaders are saving what they can before the site washes away.
  This summer, volun
  
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• Central Peninsula Hospital adds detox to treatment services

  06-09-2017 21:00 via ktoo.org
  Detox beds are not a dime a dozen in Alaska.
  Care Transitions detox facility. (Photo courtesy Central Peninsula Hospital)
  Detox beds are not a dime a dozen in Alaska. With just 30 beds statewide dedicated to those looking to get clean from opioids and other drug addictions, emergency rooms are taking the brunt of a growing opioid crisis, but the Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna is responding to the problem with a new six-bed detox facility.
  Finding a safe place to detox from opioid addicti
  
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• Irma portends new woes for debt-stricken Puerto Rico

  06-09-2017 19:47 via ktoo.org
  By all accounts, Hurricane Irma is a behemoth, a “potentially catastrophic” storm bearing 185-mph winds and the threat of devastation for the islands caught in its northwesterly course toward Florida. That threat packed an added wallop Wednesday for Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory already reeling from billions in debt.
  Between public-sector bills and pension fund obligations, Puerto Rico owes upward of $120 billion — or about $35,000 for every one of its 3.4 million residents. Th
  
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• Man returns Alutiiq lamp to Kodiak Island

  06-09-2017 19:42 via ktoo.org
  This stone lamp was found by Calvin Fair at Chief Cove in western Kodiak around 1987. It has been returned to Kodiak’s Alutiiq Museum. (Photo courtesy Clark Fair)
  Artifacts sometimes end up in attics or storage boxes miles away from their places of origin.
  That was the case for one object that started on Kodiak Island and found itself in Soldotna many years later.http://kmxt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Lamp-Desroches-Sept-06.mp3Clark Fair said he was sorting through his late father&rsqu
  
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• Alaska attorney general joins others arguing that redistricting can be too partisan

  06-09-2017 02:23 via ktoo.org
  Attorney General Jahna Lindemuth appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing in April. She joined a legal brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case, arguing that Wisconsin’s redistricting process was too partisan. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  Alaska Attorney General Jahna Lindemuth joined a legal brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case Tuesday, arguing that redistricting shouldn’t favor one political party
  Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum filed the amic
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-6-17

  06-09-2017 02:14 via ktoo.org
  Wednesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon,
  Sheli DeLaney will host.
  We’ll find out about the City Museum’s activities;
  Amy Skilbred, from the Juneau Community Foundation, and Michelle Federico, from Gastineau Human Services, will be here to highlight Residential Treatment Programs;
  Sam Bornstein will give us an update on MakerSpace activities;
  And Shannon Hasty and Hillary Young will be here to focus on Juneau Suicide Prevention.
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, We
  
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• Western wildfires endanger beloved sites at national parks

  06-09-2017 01:50 via ktoo.org
  Wildfires burning in the Western U.S. are threatening some of America’s most treasured national parks – and in some areas, the damage has already been done.
  Last week in Montana, a 20-square-mile blaze burned the historic Sperry Chalet, a hotel and dining room built in 1914 and only reachable by trail.“We are saddened to inform you that Sperry Chalet has been lost,” the chalet’s operator writes in a post to the chalet’s website. “The Sprague Fire reached
  
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• Juneau progressives protest Trump killing DACA immigration policy

  06-09-2017 01:26 via ktoo.org
  A motorist passes a yard sign that celebrates diversity in the Flats neighborhood of downtown Juneau on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Homeowner Terry Tavel, who sometimes works for KTOO, said her grandparents on both sides of her family were immigrants from Lithuania. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  You may see an immigration-themed rally in Marine Park this evening.
  Local progressive activists are protesting President Donald Trump’s decision to end the Obama-era immigration policy known was DACA,
  
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• Hiker rescued after falling down cliff on Dude Mountain Trail

  06-09-2017 00:41 via ktoo.org
  A view from the Dude Mountain Trail. (File photo by KRBD)
  A Florida man fell Sunday afternoon and hurt his leg while hiking on Dude Mountain.
  A hunter and his son heard the hiker, later identified as Zach Green, 27, signaling for help and called in the report, according to the Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad.
  The hunters said they had voice contact with the hiker, but the terrain was too steep for them to get closer.
  A medical rescue team in a Temsco heli
  
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