(Left to right) Petersburg High School students Oliver Petersen and Thomas Olsen-Phillips remotely connect to the Heather Bauscher's UAS course with the assistance of Avery Herrman-Sakamoto in a Petersburg Public Library conference room.
A unique University of Alaska Southeast program is teaching high school students how to participate in federal subsistence management decisions by bringing them directly into the public process.
The dual enrollment course, which offers high school students two university biology credits, prepares participants to engage effectively with the Federal Subsistence Board - the body overseeing subsistence hunting and fishing regulations on federal public lands in Alaska.
"I truly believe now, in my experience of navigating the processes for the last decade, that you can't learn this stuff from books....
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