About Us

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We are the students at the Innoko River High School, living in the last village on the Innoko River in the western Interior of Alaska.

Jamie Hamilton

Interests: Hunting, fishing and working on engines.

Hobbies: Basketball, snowboarding, snowmachining, and dirtbiking.

Favorite Native food: Willow grouse.

Reaction to being told we were going to SOUTH AFRICA:
At first I was speechless, and to this day I can not believe we were chosen to go.

Jamie

Jamie
ALISON Shadow data

Our GLOBE Research

We have been a GLOBE school since 1998. Different classes of students have set up different study sites over the years but in 2005 our local research on our environment took on a different twist when lightening struck behind our village and burned a 15-acre area of land dangerously close to local homes.

The Alaska State Forestry Department hired the Shageluk Emergency Fire Fighting crew and the EFF crew from Nikolai to assist in putting out the fire. The fire lasted just two weeks but has provided us with long-term data on regrowth in a Boreal forest that has made us think about climate change and how it effects our cultural traditions and survival as the Deg Hitan people!

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Everett Semone June 11

Today I came in one minute early and I had to wait for half an hour for Jamie and one hour for Jack. After Jack came we got started on the Soil Fertility Hach kit and it took two hours to finish and clean up all the stuff we used. When we got done cleaning up we went up to the Control and the Burn site and got our final green up data for the spring.

Jamie/6-11-08

Today we finished our soil fertility testing. We also discussed how we will change our American money into African money, or Rand. After all that we went up to the burn site and recorded our last green up of the year.

Jack/6-11-08

Today I was late coming into the school because we were helping haul winter's wood for another family. I went to the classroom were Joy was sitting down by her desk. Jamie and Everett had started the Soil Fertility test on our burn site. I never had any coffee this morning so I had to struggle to stay awake so Joy had to keep us moving along. Then we had to finish the soil fertility protocol for nitrates, phosphorus, and potassium. After that we went and did our final data on the Green-up study site on our Control and Burn sites.

Shageluk Fire Drama Unfolds, August 3, 2005