Award Winning Carver Cited For Violating Federal Law

An award winning Tlingit carver has been cited by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for violating federal law.  Archie Cavanaugh, from Juneau, placed art objects he had created for sale on the internet. One of the pieces, a hat, used raven feathers and another one, a headdress, used flicker feathers.

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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
elockyer (at) alaskapublic (dot) org  |  907.550.8446 | About Ellen

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