Brooke Woods is a longtime Yukon River salmon advocate. She is Koyukon Athabascan and a tribal member of the community of Rampart, which is on the Yukon in Interior Alaska, about 80 miles northwest of Fairbanks.
She joins the Northern Journal podcast to share a personal perspective on Yukon River salmon declines, and on management measures to address them. Bathsheba Demuth, the Brown University environmental historian who discussed the same issues on a previous episode, also joins us — if you haven't listened to her interview, it provides context that would be useful before listening to this one.
We've invited representatives of the pollock trawl industry to appear on their own episode of the podcast, and hope that interview materializes soon. Questions, comments or feedback? Email nat [at] northernjournal dot com.
What is Northern Journal?
Alaska is defined by its environment and its natural resources — the fish in its rivers, the oil and minerals buried underground. The Northern Journal podcast digs into those subjects, with interviews with those who know them best.