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Randy Brown

Randy Brown grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico and moved to Alaska when his father, Bill Brown, took a job as historian with the National Park Service. Eventually, in the mid-1970s, Randy chose to move out in the bush and settled on the Yukon River near Eagle, Alaska. Here he lived a subsistence lifestyle based upon hunting, trapping and fishing on the Yukon, Kandik, and Nation Rivers. After marrying his wife, Karen Kallen-Brown and having two sons, the family moved into "town," but continued to visit their fish camp every summer. In the 1990s, Randy became a fisheries biologist, focusing on the salmon of the Yukon River drainage, and works for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service based in Fairbanks.

Randy Brown appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve

Interview Title	Abstract	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Date of Interview
Randy Brown, Interview 1	Randy Brown was interviewed on October 28, 1991 by Dan O'Neill in the audio studio at Elmer E. Rasmuson Library on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska. He was enrolled in classes and maintained a busy schedule. On the day of the interview, he had only one hour free. Consequently, the scope of the interview is abbreviated, but he agreed to continue the discussions at a planned second interview during the holiday break. In this first interview of a set of two interviews, Randy talks about living a subsistence lifestyle on the Kandik River in the late 1970s. He discusses his decision to move out there, how he learned to survive and relied upon trapping, hunting and fishing, building sleds, and tells the story of a previous fellow who starved to death when trying to live out in the country.	91-22-42	Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve	Oct 28, 1991
Randy Brown, Interview 2, Part 1	Randy Brown was interviewed on December 30, 1991 by Dan O'Neill in the audio studio at Elmer E. Rasmuson Library on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska. This is the first part of a two part interview that is the second interview in a two interview series. The first interview (ORAL HISTORY 99-21-42) was conducted on October 28, 1991. In this first part of the second interview, Randy continues to talk about living a subsistence-based lifestyle on the Kandik River in the late 1970s. Specifically, he discusses his seasonal round of hunting and fishing, and his methods of travel in both the summer and winter. During the interview, they were looking at USGS maps (1:250,000) of the area, so much of the conversation can be traced on the map. Since Dan O'Neill, had been a dog musher in Alaska for ten years, many of the questions relating to dogs, gear and traveling conditions are fairly specific.	91-22-57	Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve	Dec 30, 1991
Randy Brown, Interview 2, Part 2	This is the continuation of an interview with Randy Brown on December 30, 1991 by Dan O'Neill in the audio studio at Elmer E. Rasmuson Library on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska. This is the second part of a two part interview that is the second interview in a two inerview series. The first interview (ORAL HISTORY 99-21-42) was conducted on October 28, 1991. In this second part of the second interview, Randy continues to talk about living on the Kandik River in the late 1970s. He discusses how he and his family survived, how the area changed as more people moved in, and the effect of the arrival of the National Park Service and the establishment of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. During the interview, they were looking at USGS maps (1:250,000) of the area, so much of the conversation can be traced on the map. Since Dan O'Neill, had been a dog musher in Alaska for ten years, many of the questions relating to dogs, gear and traveling conditions are fairly specific.	91-22-58	Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve	Dec 30, 1991
Randy Brown, Interview 3	Randy Brown was interviewed on May 5, 2023 by Marcy Okada and Mat Sorum with the National Park Service in the offices of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Federal Building in Fairbanks, Alaska. In this interview, Randy talks about his experience living a remote lifestyle on the Kandik and Tatonduk Rivers and around Eagle, Alaska in the late 1970s and 1980s. He talks about his subsistence hunting and fishing activities, his travels around the country, and most specifically about his sheep hunting experiences and how the sheep and the hunting have changed over time.	2024-04	Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve	May 2, 2023