Posted on 06/03/2015 9:25:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Frank Logusak, a tribal elder in Togiak, a ramshackle settlement of 842 people on Alaska's remote Bristol Bay, is a hunter and a fisherman, a Yupik native who knew the village's last shaman. Logusak is no scientist, but in his 64 years here, he has watched and felt startling changes in the world around him.
"It's a problem, the global warming," Logusak says, sitting at a lunch table at the village's public school, where older residents join students for government-subsidised free meals. "Ice used to stay in the bay until May," he says. "It's way different now."
From Alaska to Africa's Kalahari Desert to the Amazon, indigenous communities have been among the hardest hit by climate change, because their way of life is so dependent on nature. "Indigenous peoples are the canary in the coal mine," says Nancy Maynard, a retired Nasa scientist who was lead author of the polar regions section of the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
Only a handful of Togiak students go to college; most drop out by 10th grade. "Most kids want to stay and subsistence hunt and fish, and do commercial fishing," says Shayla Schwoch, a high school English teacher.
Back in the town of Dillingham, the starting point for flights to Togiak, I thumb a ride from the airport with Tara Kregar, a high school maths and science teacher in Dillingham who taught in Togiak last year. I ask if her students, in both places, are aware of climate change. She nods solemnly, then says, "I have students who ask if the world is coming to an end".
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Gag and barf. I read a global alarmists article a week back that said it was 90 somewhere in Alaska last week! Well, it was hot here, but now it is colder than normal and rainy! I suppose that’s globull warming too. That, or regular old weather.
>>>I am expecting wildlife populations to explode if growing seasons are longer.<<<
We had a warm winter; even a “summer in January” type of thaw, in addition to the usual February warm spell. Less snow cover than normal. March and April were warm but wet, before cooling back to low-normals.
The mouse population is booming. Besides all the cat can catch, I get 2-5 a day in traps around the barn & chicken house, and even saw a couple raiding chicken feeders in broad daylight. A few have even managed to get in the house for a very short time; the indoor cat made short work of those.
Also, for the first time in over 10 years, we had a flock of wild turkeys resident all winter, uing their summer roosts. Normally they migrate about 4-5 miles, and 750’ lower, to the river bottom & town, to take advantage of the hot springs fed river & feeders in people’s yards.
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