Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak science

http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay40.htm

Why smart people defend bad ideas - scottberkun.com:

“Instead I’m saying that short term bits of data are neither reliable nor a wise way to go about making important long term decisions. Intelligent people do this all the time, and since it’s so commonly accepted as a rule of thumb (last time + the time before that), it’s often accepted in place of actual thinking. Always remember that humans, given our evolution, are very bad at seeing the cumulative effects of behavior, and underestimate how things like compound interest or that one cigarette a day, can in the long term, have surprisingly large impacts despite clearly low short term effects.”

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Delta Discovery weekly newspaper. http://www.deltadiscovery.com

http://YKHC.org
Chris Ho
Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp., Public Information Officer
chris_ho AT ykhc DOT org
(907) 543-6037

I would like to encourage a school class, maybe history or social studies or language, to collate the best suggestions from the published histories, so we could share them on this site. Here are some examples I had previously run across. Also a suggested reading list (see my comment on this post. Karen Fluegel’s reading list here) Pam

….Nowadays, many people believe that more children could have survived the epidemic, if their parents had known how to care for them. But because they had not encountered this kind of sickness before, many parents did not know what to do. For example, when temperatures of the children became extremely high, many parents did not attempt to cool them down. Some who did survive—and who are still alive today—may owe their survival to parents who had better information about how to care for them…. Lesson II: History of the Cup’ik People

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from the March 21, 2006 edition
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0321/p09s01-coop.html

Selling ‘pandemic flu’ through a language of fear
Traditional skepticism is missing in discussions of pandemic flu.
By Peter Doshi
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14apr2006
These are recommended sources for valid information. As always, read critically. I add new sources as comments. Please add your own suggestions.
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Avian Influenza-related Activities in Alaska (posted 3/20/06)
Links, files and public information portals for Alaskan communities, waterfowl hunters, and the general public.
http://alaska.fws.gov/media/avian_influenza/index.htm

Unfortunately, many of the useful documents, like those at http://www.wildlife.alaska.gov/ are in pdf format which makes it difficult to read on-line.

“Wildlife Diseases & Parasites” lists information for a number diseases and/or infections carried by wildlife, and how to cope with them.

I know that US Fish & Wildlife Service is asking for help fom hunters. I cannot find the announcement on the FWS website, but here is the contact info for the scientist in charge.

Deborah Rocque
Environmental Contaminants Specialist
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Fisheries and Habitat Conservation
1011 E. Tudor Road
Anchorage, AK 99503 Phone: (907) 786-3398
Fax: (907) 786-3350
Email: deborah_rocque AT fws DOT gov
http://alaska.fws.gov/internettv/fisheriestv/contaminantstv/directory.htm