Percy Jackson: Interview Outline: Section 5 Changes he has observed in the land, animals and weather Tape Reference Number: H2002-09-14 Percy Jackson talks with Bill Schneider and Eileen Devinney in Kiana, Alaska on January 28, 2003.

Bill Schneider: Well, you've probably seen a lot of changes here.

Percy Jackson: Uh-hum. Lots of changes.

Bill Schneider: Could you talk about some of those?

Percy Jackson: Even with ptarmigan, you could do that like rabbit. Put the net, hang it up, and drive them ptarmigan to that -- toward the net. And when they get close to that, they just go to them and let them fly and get to that net. That's what my uncle used to teach us. When we were going out, we used to take old net and get ptarmigans with it.

Bill Schneider: We were talking last night about changes in the land --

Percy Jackson: Uh-hum.

Bill Schneider: -- and the animals. Could you talk about some of the things you've observed.

Percy Jackson: What, animals?

Bill Schneider: Animals and changes in the environment. From weather or whatever.

Percy Jackson: I think the weather is changing that way, it's warming up. Not like when I was young, when I first start hunting.

Bill Schneider: Hmm.

Percy Jackson: Used to be -- we used to leave here around -- right after Christmas, went out to Noatak and start hunting. And come back last part of March or April. Stay out there. Because there was no caribou at that time. And when you want moose, you got to go to Colville, Colville River.

Bill Schneider: And you made that trip?

Percy Jackson: No. Just my dad before I start hunting, before I start following him. That Colville is a long ways from here.

Bill Schneider: Yeah, it sure is.

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