text: If you really were warned by a refuge officer not to go into Quinhagak, that person probably  never has been in town, and shouldn't be working for the refuge. I've been to Quinhagak many, many times, on business and for pleasure, and have never found anyone there less than open and welcoming. And that comes from someone who has been to all the YK villages, some more friendly than others. The people living there are not overly thrilled by the handful of high-end sportfishing camps on the Kanektok River shipping out the many boxes of salmon, with little concomitant benefit to the community.  That's not surprising, but I haven't seen that translated into hostility. 
  
  Quinhagak is one of the higher-functioning communities in Southwest Alaska, and it's too bad that willing workers are being left high and dry by the well-heeled CVRF management. Won't even lease ice-makers and cranes so fish could be shipped out? Really?!
  
  But what else can we expect from yet another corrupt Uncle Ted scheme?