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Letty Hughes

Letty Hughes was born in Montana, but her family moved to interior Alaska when she was about six years old. She graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2004 with an undergraduate degree in wildlife biology. She has worked for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks, Bethel and Nome, Alaska, and since July 2018 has been the wildlife biologist for Bering Land Bridge National Preseve based in Nome. Her work has included being a field technician studying the stomach contents of seals to conducting animal population surveys of moose, caribou, bears, muskoxen, and wolves. She has also looked at vegetation and changes to the animals' habitats and is involved with the Bering Land Bridge and the Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network.

Letty Hughes appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

Observing Change in Alaska's National Parks

Interview Title	Abstract	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Date of Interview
Letty Hughes	Letty Hughes was interviewed on April 14, 2019 by Leslie McCartney and Katie Cullen in her office at the headquarters of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve in Nome, Alaska. In this interview, Letty talks about her wildlife research and survey work as the preserve's wildlife biologist and observations she has made about environmental change and its effect on wildlife and human use in the region. She also discusses the effect of a changing environment on the ability to conduct fieldwork in the area and about the importance of educating a broad public audience about the impacts of change in the north.	2018-14-14	Observing Change in Alaska's National Parks	Apr 14, 2019