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This report presents the results of a harvest survey and ethnographic research project that investigated the subsistence uses of large land mammals and furbearers in Game Management Unit 25 in the Yukon Flats region of Interior Alaska. Large land mammal species harvested and used by Yukon Flats residents include moose Alces alces, caribou Rangifer tarandus, black bear Ursus americanus, and brown bear Ursus arctos. Furbearing species included in this study are marten Martes americana, lynx Lynx canadensis, and wolf Canis lupus. For the 2008–2009 study year a total of 284 of 467 households (approximately 61%) were surveyed in the 7 Yukon Flats communities of Beaver, Birch Creek, Chalkyitsik, Circle, Fort Yukon, Stevens...
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Chalkyitsik, All tags...
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R2a-Impact Climate Change Vegatation and Subsistence,
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Venetie,
Yukon Flats,
Yukon River,
black bear,
brown bear,
caribou,
furbearer trapping,
moose,
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TThis report summarizes the results of research conducted in 2011 on the subsistence harvest and uses of wild foods in 6 Kuskokwim River communities: Akiak, Kwethluk, Oscarville, and Tuluksak of the lower river communities; and Georgetown and Napaimute of the central river communities. The principal questions addressed by the Donlin Creek Subsistence Research Program were how many wild foods were harvested for subsistence, the harvest amounts, and how these foods were distributed within and between communities. Related questions addressed the role of wild foods in Alaska’s economy, the role of cash in subsistence economies, the lands and waters used for subsistence practices in the central Kuskokwim area, and the...
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