Western Alaska Yellow Pages

Western Alaska Yellow Pages Regional Information

Found on the Bering Sea coast of southwestern Alaska, this region is surrounded by tens of thousands of square miles of remote and pristine terrain that includes boreal forest, swamps and highlands. Western Alaska is bounded by Bristol Bay on the south, the Kuskokwim Mountains on the west and north, and the Aleutian Range on the east.

Culture

The native people that mostly live in the entire region depend on fish, sea otters, seals, and whales for subsistence. In the Bering Sea, the biggest single population of Unangan people live on the Pribilof Islands, St. Paul and St. George. Others remain in the Aleutian Islands, on Kodiak Island and throughout the Alaska Peninsula.

Education

The Southwest Region School District handles the educational system in Western Alaska. Its mission and vision is that all students can receive an education that constantly affirms human diversity, that validates and recognizes the history and rich culture of all ethnic groups, to assure high expectation for academic success for all students and to encourage them and their parents by active participation. To get more detail you can contact them through WesternAlaskaYellowpages.com.

Economy of Western Alaska

Southwest Alaska's land is owned and managed mostly by the national government, the state of Alaska, and Alaska's Regional Native Corporations.

The economy of the region mainly relies on resource extraction, subsistence, and government spending. The region's primary economic bases are commercial fishing in the summer, and subsistence hunting and fishing in the winter. Kodiak and Unalaska are two of the most productive fishing ports in the country. The salmon, trout, king crab, and halibut fisheries are extremely productive. Bristol Bay's commercial sockeye salmon industry is the largest in the whole world. Approximately 80% of that catch is taken by non-locals and only a small portion of the fishery is processed locally. To contact these businesses you can use the WesternAlaskaYellowpages.com.

Hunting and other tourism industries in Western Alaska are dependable, although they are small and seasonal parts of the economy. Mining of platinum, mercury, and mainly gold has been a stable part of the economy.

Businesses and Infrastructure

Dillingham is the largest community in Western Alaska. It serves as a hub to the rest of Bristol Bay and provides banking services, a regional hospital, local restaurants, stores, hotels, State Troopers, a public radio station, and an extension campus for the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. You can find the contact information for these businesses in WesternAlaskaYellowpages.com.

Travel Spots

Alaska's extensive Southwest region is a home to the neighborhoods of Bethel, King Salmon, Unalaska, Dillingham, Kodiak and the Pribilof Islands. The region is as varied as it is big.

Unalaska, found on the Aleutian Island chain, is home base to Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Ascension and the Bishop's House. The Baranov Museum is a warehouse built in the 1790s by Alexander Baranof to store furs and is the oldest remaining Russian structure in the state. The Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository showcases 8,000 years of Alutiiq rich history along with artifacts and archaeological things. Explore and find these fascinating places to visit in WesternAlaskaYellowpages.com.

We have provided additional information in multiple yellow page directories if you are looking for information in a specific area of the state. These regional business directories will give you the 411 and reverse look-up capability you need. These business directories include:

• Soldotna
• Kenai
• Anchorage/a>
• Kodiak
• Wasilla
• Fairbanks
• North Slope Alaska
• Northwest Alaska
• Bush Alaska
• South Central Alaska
• Southeast Alaska
• Interior Alaska
• Kenai Peninsula
• MatSu

Additional Directories Surrounding Western Alaska, AK

Nearby directories include . Larger regions include Bush Alaska, and Alaska.

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• Kodiak
• North Slope Alaska

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