climate impact commission

Here's a pic from the Alaska Climate Impact Assessment Commission hearing last week in Kotzebue. It comes courtesy of Mikayla Saito, who interned for Rep. Reggie Joule last year and helped get the commission going.
Mikayla was in Kotzebue for the hearing and spoke poignantly of her concerns about climate change as a grad student at UAF, an intern at the Alaska Center for the Environment, and a "representative of the younger generation."
Mikayla talked about building huge forts in the trees in her backyard in Homer, then having to cut them down years later after spruce beetles got to them. She described finding a mammoth tusk on a shoreline and thinking about all the history that's literally eroding away.
As a graduate student, she said, she'd like to see history recorded, possibly through hearings like those held in the 1980s by judge Thomas Berger on the impact of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
Mikayla's message as young person was simple. "Keep us in mind."