Scientists and indigenous leaders gather to protect seals and ancestral lifestyle in Yakutat, Alaska
Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-lined ocean fjord in southeastern Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons navigated their canoes through drifts of ice in pursuit of seals near the Sít Tlein (Hubbard) glacier. They must have stared nervously at the looming, broken face of the glacier; They were aware that icefalls could come… Read More »