Izzy Ross
News DirectorIzzy Ross is the news director at KDLG, the NPR member station in Dillingham. She reports, edits, and hosts stories from around the Bristol Bay region, and collaborates with other radio stations across the state.
Since 2019, Izzy has directed the Bristol Bay Fisheries Report, which provides vital information daily to thousands of commercial fishermen in the summer. She has also reported for Alaska's Energy Desk, a regional journalism collaboration with Alaska Public Media. Her work airs regularly on Alaska Public Media's statewide news. It has also aired on National Native News, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Here and Now.
Izzy graduated from Smith College with a degree in Government in 2015. After graduating, she spent a year reporting on stand-up comedy in Berlin, Germany, on a Fulbright Journalism Fellowship. She has worked for Washington Monthly, NPR Berlin, and Deutsche Welle.
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The park is now in the second year of a permit program aimed at educating visitors on how to behave along the Brooks River, and staff want to hear from the public. -
“Everything we want to be today, our ancestors already were. What we're trying to achieve isn't impossible; it already was," said Igiugig Village Council President AlexAnna Salmon during her keynote address at the Bristol Bay Sustainability Summit.
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Fish processors have indicated they will not buy Togiak herring this season. That means that this spring, over 57,400 tons of herring will go unharvested. But the herring themselves are doing just fine.
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At the end of last year, before the EPA issued the decision, the Pedro Bay Native Corporation closed a $20 million deal that blocked the Pebble Limited Partnership’s proposed route to transport materials to and from the giant copper and gold deposit.
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Independent House District 37 Rep. Bryce Edgmon came into the KDLG studio on Friday discuss education funding and other budget items, including state primacy of Section 404-c of the Clean Water Act. This week the Alaska legislature’s House Finance Committee will hear public testimony on the budget.
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The board voted unanimously to adopt a plan that curbs fishing time when larger sockeye runs are forecast. The Nushagak River’s king salmon runs have declined sharply in recent years even as huge sockeye returns to the district have broken records.
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The international Arctic Winter Games took place last month in Wood Buffalo, Alberta. Thousands of athletes, coaches and spectators gathered for the events. One of those athletes was from Bristol Bay.
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The Board of Fisheries and members of the public discussed the state’s action plan to protect Nushagak kings on the second day of the statewide meeting Saturday. Many people who testified discussed how many sockeye should go unharvested in order to conserve the struggling king runs.
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The statewide Board of Fisheries meeting is underway in Anchorage. The board will decide whether and how to change fishing regulations in Bristol Bay’s Nushagak District to protect its faltering king salmon runs.
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The two-day summit will include presentations from organizations around the region on topics like housing, culture and language revitalization, small business, climate change and fisheries.
