Postmark: Jun 17,94 8:36 AM Delivered: Jun 17,94 10:03 AM
Status: Previously read
Subject: Subsistence News-6/17/94
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*The Southeast Native Subsistence Commission (SENSC) has called for a meeting June 22-23, in Juneau.
*Forest Subsistence Coordinators are evaluating nominations for the Southcentral and Southeast Alaska Federal Regional Advisory Council positions. Finalists will be named to three year appointments by the Secretary of Agriculture and Interior.
*In Alaska, the Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) are each drafting separate subsistence fishing contingency plans. The plans are due August 31st.
*FWS manages sea otter, polar bear, and walrus. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) manages seals, sea lions, and porpoise in Alaska. The Marine Mammal Protection Act allows Alaska Natives the opportunity to harvest marine mammals for subsistence or to create handicrafts from these animals.
*In Southeast Alaska, deer make up at least 21% of the yearly total pounds of edible food for the regions rural residents.
Postmark: Jun 10,94 7:58 AM Delivered: Jun 10,94 10:00 AM
Status: Previously read
Subject: Subsistence News-6/10/94
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*On June 8th, William (Willie) Hensley, an Alaska Native, was named by Secretaries Mike Espy and Bruce Babbitt as the new Chairperson of the Federal Subsistence Board (FSB).
*The FSB administers the subsistence taking and uses of fish and wildlife on Alaska’s federal public lands.
*Among the Boards responsibilities: establishes regulations, determines rural and non-rural communities, determines customary and traditional uses and users of specific fish and wildlife populations, allocates subsistence uses on federal public lands, and determines which lands should be closed to non-subsistence taking of fish and wildlife.
*The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council on April 11 approved a new project for this year. A cooperative effort is underway to develop a subsistence restoration plan, including a priority list of subsistence projects. Federal and State agencies, as well as local community residents are involved in the plan.
*Southeast Alaska subsistence harvesting is directly incorporated into household diets. Almost one in three households gets at least half the food it consumes from its own harvest activities.
Postmark: Jun 03,94 7:55 AM Delivered: Jun 03,94 10:02 AM
Status: Previously read
Subject: Subsistence News-6/3/94
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*The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) has rejected Governor Watler Hickel’s recent proposal to end the state’s subsistence dilemma.
*AFN believes the Native community compromised its land and resources in 1971 with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. They believe they have already compromised, and existing ANILCA subsistence language is minimal at best.
*Rural families use money to purchase basic goods and services. Money is used to invest in the tools for subsistence hunting, fishing, trapping, and gathering.
*There is a common misconception that there is no money exchanged in traditional subsistence economies. However, trade and commerce have always been part of subsistence systems.
*Rural economies operate differently than urban ecomomies. In Alaska today, the rural communities function as “mixed economies”, where families and communities live by combining wild resources with limited commerical-wage employment.
*Rural monetary jobs tend to be few, unstable, and small income producers. Economic activiy tends to be in family groups, rather than in business firms. Economic ventures tend to be small, and benefit the family group or community.
