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View across Cook Inlet at low tide from downtown Anchorage, Alaska (September 2005) The Cook Inlet beluga whale is a genetically distinct and geographically isolated stock. [26] The population fell to 278 in 2005 and it is listed as critically endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. [27]
An environmental review underpinning a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska failed to properly analyze the potential impacts on endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales, a federal judge has ruled in ...
Beluga and narwhal catches Illustration from 1883 showing Dena'ina hunting party harpooning a beluga in Cook Inlet, Alaska. The native populations of the Arctic in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia hunt belugas, for both consumption and profit.
Shore whaling station in southeast Alaska, circa 1915 1883 illustration. "Natives hunting the beluga or white whale, Cook's Inlet, Alaska." Whaling on the Pacific Northwest Coast encompasses both aboriginal and commercial whaling from Washington State through British Columbia to Alaska.
Opponents, however, say that: the crossing would create unnecessary urban sprawl in the Anchorage area; would be more expensive and less used than projected; would divert limited transportation funding away from more critical projects; would disrupt the Government Hill neighborhood and negatively impact the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales.
" The organization was founded in 1994 with funds from a legal settlement involving oil companies that extracted resources from Cook Inlet. They are part of the Waterkeeper Alliance. They were involved in pressuring the National Marine Fisheries Service to list the Cook Inlet population of beluga whales as endangered. [1]
Cook Inlet may also refer to: Cook Inlet Region, Inc., an Alaska Native regional corporation; USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36), a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1946; USCGC Cook Inlet (WAVP-384), later WHEC-384, a United States Coast Guard cutter in commission from 1949 to 1971; Cook Inlet beluga whale, a type of Beluga ...
The dynamics of Upper Cook Inlet are such that a destructive wave would probably be hours away, so people could be warned in advance, she said. The city and state plan to work on a plan to address ...