Scientists and indigenous leaders are working together to preserve seals and an ancestral way of life in Yakutat, Alaska
Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-ringed ocean fjord in southeastern Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone harpoons ran their canoes through chunks of floating ice in search of seals near the Sít Tlein (Hubbard)- glacier. They must have looked nervously up at the looming, broken face of the glacier, aware that ice streams could … Read more