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 This week on Friday Night Fights, I bring to you a new swing in the ever growing battle between the Federal Government's attempt over control over all VS States and the management of their land and resources.  This time around, it is Federal Government Vs. Subsistence Fishing and Hunting in Alaska. The US Department of the Interior Melissa Schwarts prepared a statement where (i'm summarizing this) she accused the ADFG of allowing subsistence fishing of the Kuskokwim river, which is part of the Yukon River Systems, which is in violation of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act Title 8.  Her reasoning is because of PREDICTED low numbers of Chum and Chinook salmon that now require limited openings to federally qualified rural residents. In other words......  control. The area in question is home to several different villages where subsistence fishing is a way of life and engrained into these villages, and their peoples' cultures for many generations....

Alright everyone, it's happened twice, so it's time to write about it.  I'm all about using 3D printers to create amazing things, but I have a serious problem with this one. In the last week I've read three articles involving "CULTURED MEAT" involving technology and it really kind of has me chapped a bit.  I'm chapped because it's technology that I'm interested in and it's cool tech, but is it the wrong tech? I've decided I'm going to call these articles out and discuss some finer points, namely from a food sustainability point of view, and I'll let you decide if the cool tech is worth it or just some corporation trying to destroy things again. pic courtesy Emerging Tech Brew; this is the Cultured Meat Factory The first article comes to me courtesy of the Emerging Tech Brew.  It posted the following article:  Challenges in Scaling Cultivated Meat...  (I paraphrase titles of links).  Reading over the article, and digging into the tec...

 Welcome to Green-Up in Interior Alaska everyone.  With that said, I'm here to write about the rapid melt that is happening and causing quite a bit of commotion through the Interior region. First to speak of on this is what rapid melt causes.  In the Interior, we had a record amount of snow.  The highest point on the measure was 100" of snow.  That's three full feet over your average person and still enough snow to bury Shaq.   Even in a normal scenario, it is not uncommon to get 3-5 feet of snow a year.  All this snow has to go somewhere in the spring and summer. When rapid heat moves in afterwards, this snow melts, causing a trickling effect.  I use those words in that place because if you were to go up to the high points, and it's the end of May right now, you would see big blogs of snow with trickling streams of water coming from underneath it.  These trickling streams merge, then merge again, and eventually dump into the river, caus...

Today on Friday Night Fights:  the Doxing Wars continue.  This time around, it just happens to be the US Supreme Court Justices.  It breaks Mr. Jon's Rule #3, I firmly believe there are several violations to privacy and public safety pre- and post-Doxing, and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) should be amended. Read it here before it gets taken down:   Read Justice Alito's initial draft abortion opinion which would overturn Roe v. Wade - POLITICO ----------------------------------------------------------- For those of you living under a rock, one of the 9 Supreme Court Justices, Justice Alito, wrote a draft piece that brings up revisiting Roe V. Wade, the law that legalizes abortion and gives women the confidence to break Rule #3 and shout in a random person's face "MY BODY MY CHOICE."  Stack on the Planned Parenthood V. Casey case, which is about minors getting abortions without parental concent, and now we have a firestorm. Roe v. Wade - Wikipedia Pla...

Well ladies and gentlemen, it is officially time for break-up in Interior Alaska.  The first signs have happened.   The Chena River in town is normally the first to break up, with some spots thawing rapidly in late winter due to some industrial zones.  This would be those places along Phillips Field Road and River Road between Peger Ave. and the Downtown Bridges. This year, the Chena River has finally broken up and a massive amount of ice is flowing down river.  I was just out there fishing with Samantha yesterday and we can attest to this.  We were at the Nordale Bridge and if the river wasn't forced into fast water channels it was breaking the ice apart and carrying it down river. In other Break-Up news, the Nenana Ice Classic is still on, despite the tripod falling.  Every year, a tripod is put out on the ice of the Tanana River with a cable hooked to a stop clock.  When the cable pulls, the clock stops. There's a large raffle/gambling event in...