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This study describes Native community perceptions of the Hook Lake Wood Bison Recovery Project and options for its future management. In 1999, I conducted thirty in-depth, semi-structured interviews with residents in the community of Fort Resolution, NT including participant and non-participant observations. Resident perceptions about the recovery project and priorities for the future care of the bison appeared to be strongly influenced by their knowledge of the project, their views on proper relationships between humans and nature, and beliefs about the aetiology of disease in bison. Dissemination of knowledge from managers to residents is complicated by challenges of communication between project staff and residents...
PURPOSE: The construction and operation of 30 to 45 miles of rail line between the Port MacKenzie District in Matanuska-Susitna Borough and a point just north of Willow, Alaska are proposed. On December 5, 2008, the Alaska Railroad Corporation (ARRC) filed a petition for the Port MacKenzie rail extension to provide freight services between Port MacKenzie and Interior Alaska. The proposed project would connect Port MacKenzie, the closest deep-water port to Interior Alaska, with the existing ARRC rail system. The Port's market includes bulk commodities, iron or steel materials, vehicles and heavy equipment, and mobile or modular buildings. The nearest other port in the area is the Port of Anchorage, which is an additional...
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This study examines the experiences and opinions of a "public" which became involved in a government driven comprehensive land use and natural resource planning exercise in British Columbia, Canada during the 1990s. While it is generally assumed to be an inherently good thing, or at least a politically necessary thing, to involve the public in natural resources or land use planning, few studies have examined the experiences of the public or examined perceived failures from the public's perspective. This study examines British Columbia's CORE and LRMP planning processes, their successes and failures, as determined by residents of six communities that participated in these processes. Lessons on improving public processes...
Sustainable resource management depends upon the participation of resource-dependent communities. Competing values between community members and government agencies and among groups within a community can make it difficult to find mutually acceptable management goals and can disadvantage certain resource users. This study uses Q-methodology to discover groups with shared perspectives on wildfire policy in the Koyukon Athabascan villages of Galena and Huslia, Alaska. Before the study, participants appeared to disagree over the amount of wildfire suppression needed, but Q-method results showed three perspectives united around deeper, less oppositional concerns: Caucasian residents and resource managers who preferred...
This study describes Native community perceptions of the Hook Lake Wood Bison Recovery Project and options for its future management. In 1999, I conducted thirty in-depth, semi-structured interviews with residents in the community of Fort Resolution, NT including participant and non-participant observations. Resident perceptions about the recovery project and priorities for the future care of the bison appeared to be strongly influenced by their knowledge of the project, their views on proper relationships between humans and nature, and beliefs about the aetiology of disease in bison. Dissemination of knowledge from managers to residents is complicated by challenges of communication between project staff and residents...
This research explores the effects of climate change throughout the Holocene by investigating a multi-component site at Butte Lake, Alaska. This research combines expectations generated from ethnographic models to evaluate site use conditioned by environmental constraints within the theoretical framework of human behavioral ecology. Analysis of lithic materials, faunal remains, and site structure are evaluated to determine site type by occupational component. The results of this research show that a period of low effective moisture during the early Holocene (9000 to 5000 cal BP), as well as a period of both low temperature and increased effective moisture associated with the Neoglacial (3500 to 1500 cal BP) had...
PURPOSE: The construction and operation of 30 to 45 miles of rail line between the Port MacKenzie District in Matanuska-Susitna Borough and a point just north of Willow, Alaska are proposed. On December 5, 2008, the Alaska Railroad Corporation (ARRC) filed a petition for the Port MacKenzie rail extension to provide freight services between Port MacKenzie and Interior Alaska. The proposed project would connect Port MacKenzie, the closest deep-water port to Interior Alaska, with the existing ARRC rail system. The Port's market includes bulk commodities, iron or steel materials, vehicles and heavy equipment, and mobile or modular buildings. The nearest other port in the area is the Port of Anchorage, which is an additional...
This research explores the effects of climate change throughout the Holocene by investigating a multi-component site at Butte Lake, Alaska. This research combines expectations generated from ethnographic models to evaluate site use conditioned by environmental constraints within the theoretical framework of human behavioral ecology. Analysis of lithic materials, faunal remains, and site structure are evaluated to determine site type by occupational component. The results of this research show that a period of low effective moisture during the early Holocene (9000 to 5000 cal BP), as well as a period of both low temperature and increased effective moisture associated with the Neoglacial (3500 to 1500 cal BP) had...
Sustainable resource management depends upon the participation of resource-dependent communities. Competing values between community members and government agencies and among groups within a community can make it difficult to find mutually acceptable management goals and can disadvantage certain resource users. This study uses Q-methodology to discover groups with shared perspectives on wildfire policy in the Koyukon Athabascan villages of Galena and Huslia, Alaska. Before the study, participants appeared to disagree over the amount of wildfire suppression needed, but Q-method results showed three perspectives united around deeper, less oppositional concerns: Caucasian residents and resource managers who preferred...
PURPOSE: The construction and operation of 30 to 45 miles of rail line between the Port MacKenzie District in Matanuska-Susitna Borough and a point just north of Willow, Alaska are proposed. On December 5, 2008, the Alaska Railroad Corporation (ARRC) filed a petition for the Port MacKenzie rail extension to provide freight services between Port MacKenzie and Interior Alaska. The proposed project would connect Port MacKenzie, the closest deep-water port to Interior Alaska, with the existing ARRC rail system. The Port's market includes bulk commodities, iron or steel materials, vehicles and heavy equipment, and mobile or modular buildings. The nearest other port in the area is the Port of Anchorage, which is an additional...
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