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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON December 16 - 0 COMMENTS
Tribal voices growing in transboundary mine campaign
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 A growing chorus of American Indian and Alaska Native organizations is raising red flags about threats to salmon, livelihoods and culture from large-scale mining in British Columbia. The largest tribal organizations in the Lower 48 and Alaska announced this week that they are backing efforts to [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON December 16 - 0 COMMENTS
Alaska’s new governor axes Susitna Dam from budget
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by Sam Snyder Wild salmon lovers got an early Christmas present this week. Alaska’s new governor on Monday cut proposed funding for a controversial hydroelectric project on one of the state’s most productive salmon rivers. Two months ago, I wrote this blog post about fishing the Susitna River, [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON December 5 - 0 COMMENTS
Controversial Sealaska bill contains a few Tongass gems
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(Photo by Jeff Nichols) By Mark Kaelke I am undoubtedly the least tech-savvy employee in the Trout Unlimited (TU) Alaska program but I try to make up for this deficiency by hoarding almost every piece of electronic information I have ever received or created.  Although admittedly a misguided [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON November 26 - 0 COMMENTS
New report: Tongass salmon left behind as transition stalls
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Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is back in the news again, this time in a Los Angeles Times article about a new economic study focusing on logging, salmon, tourism and how the Forest Service is spending your tax dollars in the country’s largest and wildest national forest.  The article quotes [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON November 3 - 0 COMMENTS
In Polley's wake, downstream Alaska fears B.C. mining boom
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by Christopher Pollon Roaring at seven knots up the U.S. side of the Stikine River, a grizzly bear of a man named Mark Galla steers our jet boat through a gauntlet of protruding logs, attempting to point out the exact point at which Alaska becomes British Columbia. Against the vastness of the [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON October 22 - 0 COMMENTS
Fighting for Susitna River salmon
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(Photo by Travis Rummel) by Sam Snyder It’s mid-October here in Alaska, the days are rapidly growing shorter, and with winter on its way rivers will begin their annual freeze up. Some rivers, more than others, in Alaska change drastically with the seasons. The Susitna River is one of those rivers. [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON October 6 - 0 COMMENTS
BC Mines Pose Big Threat to Southeast Alaska
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(Photo by Chris Miller) by Ted Williams Fly, Rod & Reel, Autumn 2014 If you thought the proposed Pebble Mine in the Bristol Bay area was the most rash and reckless development scheme ever to threaten Alaska’s fish and wildlife, you’d have been wrong. Five enormous hard-rock mines are proposed [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON October 3 - 0 COMMENTS
Big Thorne: Big Step Backwards for Tongass
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This week’s news that the U.S. Forest Service has issued a contract for a large old-growth timber sale on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is disappointing to a wide range of Americans, including sport and commercial fishermen, hunters, tourism operators and visitors to [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON August 26 - 3 COMMENTS
Old-Growth Logging Threatens Key Salmon Habitat in Alaska
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By Austin Williams After pledging in 2010 to bring about an end to old-growth logging on the Tongass National Forest, the U.S. Forest Service has failed to find first gear, and may have ground the shifter into reverse.  Last week, despite staunch public opposition, the Forest Service approved the [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY paula_dobbyn ON July 31 - 0 COMMENTS
Canadian Mine Near Southeast Alaska Moves Forward
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A huge gold and copper mine, proposed for northwest British Columbia just 19 miles from Alaska, moved a step closer to becoming a reality this week. Fishermen, tourism operators and tribes in Alaska, meanwhile, are raising red flags about the project and its potential to contaminate downstream [ READ MORE... ]
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