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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON September 29 - 0 COMMENTS
Tongass: A Southeast Alaska Salmon Success Story
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(Photo by Matt Smythe) By MARK HIERONYMUS Sept. 23 marked the official end of summer and the beginning of fall, but in Southeast Alaska words like “summer” and “fall” are less about the calendar and more about the level of activity. While fall is the cooling off period, summers full of salmon bring [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON August 11 - 0 COMMENTS
Roadless Rule Reapplied to Tongass National Forest
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(Photo by ©Earl Harper/Harper Studios, Inc.) The fish and wildlife of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, as well as the communities and industries that depend upon them, scored a significant victory last week. As you may have read, a federal appeals court ruled that the Bush administration erred in [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON August 5 - 0 COMMENTS
Alaskans mark anniversary of Mount Polley Mine tragedy
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By Paula Dobbyn This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Mount Polley mine disaster in British Columbia, Canada’s worst mine-related disaster. The tailings dam breach on Aug. 4, 2014, sent some 6.6 billion gallons of mine waste water and sludge into lakes and streams leading to the Fraser [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON July 8 - 0 COMMENTS
B.C. reopens Mount Polley mine; Alaskans concerned
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(Iskut River near the confluence with the Stikine River. Photo courtesy of Inside Passage Waterkeeper.) The British Columbia government today allowed Mount Polley mine to reopen, provoking concern from fishermen, tribes, tourism operators and others in neighboring Southeast Alaska. Mount Polley, in [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON May 20 - 0 COMMENTS
Panel recommends Tongass 77 be off-limits to old-growth logging
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(Photo courtesy of Mark Kaelke) After nine months of meetings, a federally-appointed panel charged with reviewing timber management on Alaska’s Tongass National Forest has released a set of recommendations that include some significant conservation gains. The Tongass Advisory Committee concluded [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON May 15 - 0 COMMENTS
Transboundary rivers campaign builds alliances in Seattle and B.C.
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TU’s Transboundary Rivers campaign recently wrapped up a whirlwind trip to Seattle, Vancouver, and Williams Lake, British Columbia (B.C.) that included meetings with First Nations, non-governmental organizations working on mining reform, and with B.C. government officials. Williams Lake is the [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON March 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Support the Tongass' economic engines
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  Fly fishing in the Tongass National Forest. Photo: Paula Dobbyn     by Cindy Shogun Last week, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before the Senate Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee to discuss the 2016 Forest Service budget request. And in the midst of back-and [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON February 27 - 0 COMMENTS
Forest Service criticized over Tongass logging
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Logging in southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest made news again this week when Sen. Lisa Murkowski questioned Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell about why he isn’t doing more to boost timber harvesting in the 17-million-acre rain forest. Despite fisheries and tourism serving as the centerpiece [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON February 12 - 0 COMMENTS
Xboundary: New film explores B.C. mine threats to Alaska salmon
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Screen shot 2015-02-12 at 9.53.16 AM.png Click on image above to view video.  A new short film about Southeast Alaska’s rich salmon fisheries, its vibrant tourism industry, and Native cultures is live online and being screened in Anchorage this week. Xboundary, by Alaska filmmaker Ryan [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON February 9 - 0 COMMENTS
Alaskans outraged by opening of Red Chris mine
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(Photo courtesy of Wade Davis.) Alaska fishermen, tribal leaders and tourism owners say the opening of Red Chris mine in the Stikine River watershed last week is a dangerous development for Southeast Alaska’s rich salmon fisheries and tourism-oriented economy. The Stikine River, which begins in [ READ MORE... ]
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