…today we take a break.

We are honored to be providing photographic support and sponsorship to the Clare2Clare fashion show and fundraiser again this year.  There are a very few seats left, for interested, local readers.  Here is the program.

See a few of our photos from last year, here, and some of our attempts to capture the exceptional qualities of a highly accomplished artist, model and professional administrator, Kodiak born Alaska Native, LaRita Laktonen, here.

 

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) released the Doc Hastings by Dave Harbour, ESA, Alaska, Federal Overreachfollowing statement after the House passed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) amendment offered by Rep. Norm Dicks to the FY 2012 Interior Appropriations bill:
 
“The House worked its will on this particular amendment, yet this conversation highlighted the fact that the Endangered Species Act hasn’t been updated in 23 years and Congress needs to do its job to reauthorize the law.  The conversation begun this week will continue.  The Natural Resources Committee will move forward in the fall to examine the law by listening to citizens affected by, and interested in, the ESA.  The law is expired, failing to achieve its fundamental goal of species recovery, and has become a tool for expensive debilitating lawsuits.  We have a duty to act on the ESA’s reauthorization and it needs to be updated in a calm, careful and bipartisan way.”

 

ADN by Curtis Tate.  Melting Arctic sea ice presents a wealth of new economic opportunities for the United States, but the nation can’t take advantage of them until it joins an international treaty that has languished in the Senate, a panel of military and energy experts told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday.