Seth Kantner

We need to make America great again — starting by voting in a president who acknowledges that our climate matters.

Essay: With a bleak salmon return this year in Northwest Alaska, a lifelong fisherman reflects on a season marked by empty nets and big questions.

Essay: The value of things made by hand.

Here, we think of elders as an important tie to who we were and what matters. We surely don’t focus on their hair. Or how they walk, or don’t.

In a rare place where the bear and human worlds touched in peace, I thought about the possibilities here, for young people and for leaders, to feel nature and our human need for it.

What feels wrong stretches in every direction. Or different. The truth is we are changing.

We traveled south behind Kotzebue. The land and ice sprawled for miles in all directions, snow-covered and glaring white under a huge blue sky. I felt that ache of longing and love for spring.

I’d hope she’d learn more about our region before endorsing a mega-project plowing through the Brooks Range.

The bulldozers are not coming yet. There’s still an opportunity to keep it that way.

We act as if we can do whatever we want, and these animals will be here for us. They won’t. That’s not the world we live in anymore.

Nina Harvey, Alaska Federation of Natives Elder of the Year, and her sister, Margaret Black, recall changes in the land and the people.

A changing Arctic and the Ambler Road.

There are no more hunters like Clarence Wood. Not just no one to take his place, but no place left to take.

The sole purpose of Measure 1 is to protect our rivers and salmon. Look down south if you want to see how salmon have been decimated in most places by big development, and why these protections matter so much.

How different we might act, every day, if we knew the hard, hard pieces of others' lives.