BOEM FY 2020 Environmental Studies Program

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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Alaska Office is offering a cooperative agreement opportunity to the North Slope Borough, Department of Wildlife Management to assemble scientific information and facilitate the use of Indigenous Knowledge to develop a publication to support BOEM¿s analysis of potential biological impacts from OCS activities to bowhead whales, as well as sociocultural effects related to the subsistence harvest of the whales by Alaska Native hunters. The mission of BOEM is to manage the exploration and development of the nation¿s offshore resources in a way that appropriately balances economic development, energy independence and environmental protection through oil and gas leases, renewable energy, and minerals development. The Bowhead Whale Book will provide a consolidated source of information to support more accurate science-based decisions inside and outside the Bureau.

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