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Orville H. Huntington
Refuge Information Technician
Koyukuk/ Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge Complex
P.O. Box 107
Huslia, Alaska 99746
Phone: 907-829-2266 (office) Fax: 907-829-2224
Email: orville_huntington@fws.gov

Orville Huntington has been working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 10 years. He is a Refuge Information Technician (RIT) for the Koyukuk/Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge Complex at Huslia, Alaska. His main focus is centered on the preservation of Native subsistence hunting, fishing, and trapping opportunities, and the cultural events that surround those beliefs on the refuge complex. He serves as a public servant for the village of Huslia and 43 other villages of the Tanana Chiefs Conference region.

His research interests are the direct and indirect impacts of subsistence use on fish, animals, and plants of northern ecosystems; the evaluation of current policy and regulations and their affects on the subsistence methods and means of harvesting fish, wildlife, and plants; and the use of Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge to better understand how global climate change is affecting the subsistence resources in northern areas.

Before working with the refuge complex, Orville worked as a seasonal Emergency Fire Fighter for Bureau of Land Management, a commercial fisherman, and in the Laborers' and Carpenters' Union. Orville started his fish and wildlife career as a seasonal Biological Technician in Galena. In 1994, he graduated with a B.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. After graduation, his first assignment was with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as the Refuge Operations Specialist for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. As he puts it…” After thoughtful deliberation about my position and children growing up without their cultural Athabaskan identity, I realized our greater interests were best served in a rural community where I could learn how subsistence and the science of wildlife biology relate, rather than wildlife management in a city.” In 1995, he began working for the Koyukuk/Nowitna Refuge Complex as a Wildlife Biologist in Galena, Alaska. In 1999, he moved to Huslia to work as the RIT.

Orville has extensive experience in presenting to the public. In 2000, he participated in the Arctic Visiting Speakers program as a presenter at the Marine Science Institute at Port Aransas, Texas. He is interested in this program so he can “share and add to what little knowledge is out there on matching Native America Traditional Ecological Knowledge with contemporary western science.”

He is interested in presenting to school audiences (K-12), academic audiences, graduate seminars, and the general public. Orville is not available during mid-June through mid-July or during September due to subsistence activities.