![]() ![]() The bill to add the Funter Bay cemetery to the marine park almost became a law last year.Įdelen, who traveled to Juneau during the last legislative session with a delegation of elders from the Pribilofs, found most lawmakers were receptive. ‘We didn’t have a lot of persuading to do’ This land will be protected, and we don’t have to worry about them.” “What we wanted was to know that they were going to be protected, they’re going to be safe. “Our traditions - once somebody is laid to rest, they’re laid to rest,” Edelen said. Edelen said the bill would also give people in the Pribilofs peace of mind that their loved ones won’t be disturbed. She’s acted as a liaison between Pribilof elders and people in Southeast Alaska working to preserve the history of the internment. That would mean the land couldn’t be sold or developed, and people would always be able to care for the cemetery so it wouldn’t gradually vanish in the forest.īut the bill also serves a more immediate need. Preserving that history is part of the impetus behind a bill that would add about 250 acres of state land, including the cemetery, to Funter Bay State Marine Park. “Who are these people? What happened, and why are they here?” “Why is there a cemetery in the middle of the forest out in Funter Bay?” Stepetin imagined them asking. When he found the cemetery, he realized anyone who stumbled on it would have no idea what they were seeing. About 10% died - mostly young children and elders - before they were allowed to return home in 1944. government forcibly removed them from the treeless Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea and took them to the Southeast rainforest, about 1,300 miles away - with only one bag apiece and no hunting or fishing gear.Īt Funter Bay they were left to fend for themselves, living in tents and the remains of an old mine and cannery, without clean water or medicine. The cemetery holds the graves of 30 to 40 Unangax̂ people who died at Funter Bay during World War II. And we’re asking folks, ‘Hey, do you know where this is - where the Aleuts were kept?’ And many people didn’t even know. “We looked all over inside of Funter Bay,” Stepetin said. The first time Martin Stepetin went to the Unangax̂ cemetery at Funter Bay, he didn’t know how to find it. Gisasa River Area of Critical Environmental ConcernMartin Stepetin and wife Ann embrace at the Killisnoo cemetery in 2014. Galena Mountain Area of Critical Environmental Concern Galbraith Lake Area of Critical Environmental Concern ![]() This may be the result of naming variations and/or spelling differences.Īlaska Peninsula National Wildlife RefugeĪnchor River And Fritz Creek Critical Habitat AreaĪnvik River Area of Critical Environmental ConcernĪrms Lake Research Natural Area Area of Critical Environmental Concernīering Glacier Research Natural Area Area of Critical Environmental Concernīig Bear/baby Bear Bays State Marine Parkīig Windy Hot Spring Research Natural Area Area of Critical Environmental Concernīox River Treeline Research Natural Area Area of Critical Environmental ConcernĬarter Spit Area of Critical Environmental ConcernĬentral Arctic Management Area Wilderness Study AreaĬity Of Petersburg Water Supply Act Water Reserve WithdrawalĬopper Sands Rna Origional Boundary Research Natural Areaĭulbi-Kaiyuh Mountains Subunit Area of Critical Environmental ConcernĮmergency Watershed Protection Program - Floodplain Easement (EWPP FPE) Fairbanks North Star, AlaskaĮmergency Watershed Protection Program - Floodplain Easement (EWPP FPE) Kenai Peninsula, AlaskaĮmergency Watershed Protection Program - Floodplain Easement (EWPP FPE) Southeast Fairbanks, Alaska This area is tagged with protect_class=*, but the PAD-US database reports that there is no protected area with this name in Alaska that has an assigned IUCN category. IUCN Categorized Protected Areas in Alabama Instead, these areas should simply be tagged with leisure= nature_reserve, which will render in OSM Carto. Areas should not be tagged with protect_class=* if their IUCN category cannot be determined.Areas listed as "Not Reported" meet the definition of IUCN protection, but have not yet been assigned a category, and categorization is not appropriate.(This script output is a work in progress and cannot be relied on for mapping). ![]() This table is generated by the OPUSInspect script, by ZeLonewolf on Nov 28, 2020.
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