Point Lay News

SolveClimate.com: Where the natural gas from the Alaska natural gas pipeline will end up is a murky question tied up in a 30-year-old treaty, expansion of Canadian tar sands operations, and trends in natural gas supplies both in the United States and in Canada.

The Arctic coast village of Point Lay, long denied a subsistence whaling quota and once all but abandoned, is poised to hold its first Nalukataq blanket toss feast in 72 years to celebrate the landing of a spring bowhead.

Two crews from Point Lay have landed the community's first bowhead whale in 70 years.

Two crews from Point Lay have landed the community's first bowhead whale in 70 years.

LOCATION: South of the Kokolik River mouth, about 300 miles southwest of Barrow in northwest Alaska.