Alaska Voices

"I don't think climate change is something we should just wait off until disaster. I just think we need to be more prepped and figure out how far ahead can we get our stock up?"

"Done a little bit of everything you can imagine, from recycling pop cans to fuel spill response and contaminated site cleanups and brownfields, the whole gamut of things we can run in to in the villages."

"I feel that we all have a role at the smokehouse and that gives you some worth in your core. Like, you have a role in this family and you're important."

"First and foremost, we should be addressing our people And then addressing our scientific needs."

Alaska Voices project leads Jessie Robertson and Bob Bolton explain what led them to record dozens of conversations about Alaska and Arctic issues.

"When I went to work at the hospital, they were amazed what I can do. Elders always were glad for me to take care of them because I took care of an elder so I knew."

"Dad had been doing fieldwork for 17 years and never seen a wolverine. On my first trip out there, bam, not one but two wolverines in the wild."

"So it's been a challenge just trying to get out and teach students about what's going on with the snow pack when it doesn't really exist."

"Our children would always ask questions and say oh, why can't you say it this way? And so I realized that communication is very much a part of science."

"My mom always says this too, if you take a side profile of Randy, he looks just like a bison."