Sun’aq Tribe wins grant to study invasive species and effect on subsistence resources

Signal crayfish are not native to Alaska. Discovered in the Buskin River in 2001, the population is now well established and breeding. (Photo courtesy Lisa Hupp/USFWS)
The Sun’aq Tribe won a grant to study the kind of threat that  invasive crayfish in Alaska pose to subsistence resources. The award was announced Tuesday.
Tribal biologist Kelly Krueger saod Sun’aq applied for a Tribal Wildlife grant through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about a year ago.Now, the group w