U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola is focusing the final days of her reelection campaign on how to slow outmigration from Alaska.
With Election Day coming up on Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola sat down with KYUK over the weekend to discuss her reelection campaign and issues impacting her home region – the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Read a transcript of the Saturday conversation below. It has been lightly edited for clarity and flow, but may contain transcription errors.Thank you so much for being here at KYUK today, Representative Peltola. We really appreciate you taking some time to talk to us. So first of all, we’re near the end of a campaign. How’s that been? It seems like it’s been a lot.It feels never-ending, and it’s really nice to see the light at the end of the tunnel and single digit days ’til the finish here.
There is a myth. Right now, there is a myth among states’-rights folks and people who are threatened by federal management, they are saying that Alaskan management decisions will be made in Washington D.C. There is no scenario where Washington D.C. with a four-hour time difference is going to be involved in in-season management in Alaska that or or even pre-season or postseason. There is no one in Washington D.C.
And this I think, I think Elders could recognize, because in my lifetime, I look at how much the Kuskokwim River has changed in my lifetime, and the landscape is going to change. Mother Nature is more powerful than we are or ever will be, and these were not, you know, designed as permanent establishments by Native people. There’s a broad recognition that we fit into the environment more than we can form the environment to fit us here, in this location.
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