I have internet tonight, so I'll go ahead and talk about subsistant living. Many of the Native Alaskan people are still living or trying to live as they have for hundreds, even thousands of years. They teach their children how to hunt, fish , gather berries, etc. I heard on the news that because of the very cold winter this year that some of the salmon are slow in returning to spawn. This means that the people haven't been able to catch their limits or enough to feed their families this next winter. One lady said that maybe they will all need food stamps this year, but that's not what they want. They want to be able to fish this certain kind of salmon for longer this year. I didn't know they were so many different kinds of salmon and they all come different times and places. I hope to be down on the Kenai when some of them are coming. I saw a net at Costco that was 4 1/2 feet across the diameter and had a 17 ft handle. I asked a couple what it was for and she told me :Catching salmon".
Hopefully, I will get to see some wild muskox tomorrow. Even though you can not drive to Nome there are 3 roads that lead out of here going to villages, toward the Bering land bridge(you still can't get all the way there), and I can't remember where else, but should know after the tour I'm taking.
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