Kanuyaq

Between those deaths and a series of attacks on snowmobilers up the Kanuyaq River, not to mention the still-open homicide of Park villain Louis Deem last year, part-time P.I. and newly elected chairman of the Niniltna Native Association Kate Shugak has her hands very much full.

Whisper to the Blood by Dana Stabenow: Book summary 2010

Both women had taken her white-water canoeing on the Kanuyaq and saltwater kayaking on Prince William Sound.

A Fine and Bitter Snow Stabenow, Dana 2002

Mutt leapt to the seat of the snow machine as Kate thumbed the throttle and together they roared twenty-five miles over unplowed road to Niniltna, four miles past the village to the ghost town of Kanuyaq, and up the rutted, icy path to the Step.

A Fine and Bitter Snow Stabenow, Dana 2002

Since the herd migrated from its state land grazing area to its calving ground near the headwaters of the Kanuyaq in the Park, the Park Service had consulted with the state Fish and Game people and had come up with a plan to allow flying and shooting the same day, with a maximum take of five caribou per hunter, and they were even allowing each hunter to take one cow.

A Fine and Bitter Snow Stabenow, Dana 2002

The Kanuyaq caribou herd had topped 23,000 in population and was in danger of eating itself out of house and home.

A Fine and Bitter Snow Stabenow, Dana 2002

He was thinking of starting a second miniseason in January, to take advantage of the prolific tendencies of the Kanuyaq caribou herd.

A Fine and Bitter Snow Stabenow, Dana 2002

“He tells me there are more deer on the Kanuyaq delta than he has ever seen.

A Grave Denied Stabenow, Dana 2003

So long as it reverts back to the Kanuyaq Land Trust upon my death.”

A Grave Denied Stabenow, Dana 2003

He’d started out fishing in Cordova, learned to fly, and homesteaded on the Kanuyaq.

A Fine and Bitter Snow Stabenow, Dana 2002

“What’s going on is that all the bears are asleep, the moose are bedded down by the rivers, conserving energy, and the Kanuyaq caribou will start getting thinned down” — he looked at the calendar — “in four days, which will considerably relieve my mind.

A Fine and Bitter Snow Stabenow, Dana 2002