Copyright (c) 2012 The Tundra Drums, All rights reserved. http://www.thetundradrums.com/ en-us CAUYAT - "The Beat of the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta" http://www.thetundradrums.com/ http://www.thetundradrums.com/cms/images/.TEMP/companylogoTEMP144x144-6072.jpg 144 73 The Tundra Drums - RSS Feed Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:35:00 AST http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=02172012161780422540http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=02172012161780422540Alaska Army National Guard Soldiers from B Company, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 143rd Infantry Regiment, are eagerly anticipating their deployment day, scheduled to leave for Afghanistan before the end of the month. More than 126 Soldiers, most from western Alaska, were mobilized Nov. 25, and left Alaska for Camp Atterbury, Ind., to finalize their pre-deployment training before taking over a...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121628235779634http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121628235779634Pete Kaiser of Bethel won the first running of the Paul Johnson Memorial North Sound 450 sled dog race Feb. 12. Kaiser, 24, arrived at the finish line in Nome...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121629480176454http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121629480176454Kyle Motgin has been charged with the murder of Bethel cab driver Young Suk Chong who went missing on Jan. 31, according to KYUK. He is charged with first and second degree murder, robbery, tampering with evidence, vehicle thef...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121630668320460http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121630668320460Jeffrey Hout of Bethel and Harry Williams of Kwethluk were each senten...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121631744485351http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121631744485351National Guardsmen saved a young man’s life in Red Devil by parachuting into the scene on Feb. 1. The 20-year-old suffering pain and vomiting after a surgical endoscopy needed immediate medical attention in order to survive, according to doctors 200 miles away in Bethel, according to the Guard. An HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter and HC-130 King aircraft were dispatched, but low cloud cover and...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121632248342496http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121632248342496Glenn Edwards, 40, died Feb. 6 when a snow machine he was riding between Holy Cross and...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=02172012163449532038http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=02172012163449532038Jonathan M. Friend, 27, of Kwigillingok was found guilty Feb. 9 of taking a musk ox in a closed area and unlawful methods, according to an Alaska Wildlife Troopers. The incident in April involved Friend wounding a musk ox using a .22 caliber rifle near Kwingillingok. Friend was fined $500 for each violation and ordered to pay $3,000 restitution for the musk ox. The meat from the kill was...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121634513211761http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121634513211761The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Subsistence Regional Advisory Council will meet at 9 a.m. Feb. 23 at the Bethel Moravian Church Fellowship Hall in Bethel. The council will develop proposals to change federal subsistence regulations for the harvest of fish and shellfish and discuss other issues related to subsistence in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region. For information regarding the meeting contact the...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121636998077418http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121636998077418The Owner State and Governor Parnell’s oil tax roll-back Note: This article jointly appears in the February 2012 Alaskans United newsletter On Feb. 9, the “Moore Up North” television program hosted a panel to discuss a concept that is central to the debate over Governor Parnell’s proposed oil ‘tax break’ — the Owner State. What is the Owner State and what is the basis of the term...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121652423533998http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121652423533998Editor’s note: The following is a response to the column “What the redistricting trial unmasked is not pretty” that was published in the Jan. 19 LOG. I reject your premise that white Republicans are racist bigots. Your blanket statement, “Of course, the obvious unstated assumption is that white Republicans exhibit racist voting behaviors,” is in fact bigoted thinking. Democrats and...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=02172012165334836855http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=02172012165334836855A make-up schedule for days school was closed due to weather, water and sewer problems has been approved by the Lower Kuskokwim School District advisory school board. The above plan applies to Bethel Regional High School, Gladys Jung Elementary School and Mikelnguut Elitnaurvia School. Ayaprun Elitnaurvik other adjustments that will be announced separately. Changes to the above schedule will be...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121658681423777http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121658681423777Alaska Miners Association is holding the 23rd Biennial Conference March 19-24 in Fairbanks. This year’s focus is Technologies and Challenges for Mining in Cold Climates. The conference and associated events will at the Westmark Hotel on 10th and Noble Street.The conference will feature a multitude of lectures and workshops from industry experts; field trips to Pogo Mine and the Livengood...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121700633730084http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121700633730084Rasmuson Foundation offers one $25,000 Distinguished Artist Award annually in recognition of creative excellence and superior accomplishments in the arts. The award is intended as a validation of the artist’s creative output and contributions to the state of Alaska. Anyone can nominate someone to receive the Distinguished Artist Award and an application package from the artist is not necessary...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=0217201217026996279http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=0217201217026996279Over half of all fishing fatalities are due to vessels going down, and most of the boats sink because of flooding. The sinkings of the Alaska Ranger and Katmai in 2008, for example, in which 12 men died, both stemmed from flooding through open hatches. Those and other sinkings highlighted the need for an alert that provides immediate status of all openings aboard fishing boats. To the rescue: a...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drumshttp://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121708576432968http://www.thetundradrums.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/cms/story.html?id=021720121708576432968Asking people to hunt more moose hardly seems like a problem. But after telling three generations of people not to harvest moose, specifically cows; it may be difficult to tell people to do otherwise. Historically, up until the late 1980s, moose on the Lower Yukon existed at very low levels and most areas had few or no moose at all. Of the few moose that were present, people harvested a high...Articles from the February 20, 2012 edition of The Tundra Drums