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blog BY Eric Booton ON November 28 - 0 COMMENTS
An ode to the coho
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Photo courtesy Dave Atcheson  Coho, or silver salmon, run in the Kenai River throughout the fall and are popular with anglers.   By Dave Atcheson   We all know the Chinook is the undisputed king and sockeye salmon fill our freezers, but I don’t believe Oncorhynchus Kisutch, or the silver [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Eric Booton ON November 1 - 0 COMMENTS
Alaska Holiday High School fly tying material drive
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The egg sucking leech, a staple for every Alaskan's fly box - Photo: Jenny Weis   By: Eric Booton   This holiday season give the gift of learning, opportunity and fly fishing to Alaska High School Students!   For the past 8 years Tim Lussow, a biology teacher at Colony High School, has helped [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Mark_Hieronymus ON October 15 - 0 COMMENTS
New blog series: Exploring the fish, streams and traditions of the Tongass National Forests
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Intro by Paula Dobbyn   A top priority for Trout Unlimited in Alaska is to conserve some of the best salmon and trout watersheds left in North America for our kids and grandkids. Many of these wild places are found within a 17 million acre rain forest in Southeast Alaska. Home to about 70,000 [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY Mark_Hieronymus ON October 15 - 0 COMMENTS
Rainforest Steelhead of the Mighty Tongass
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All photos and essay by: Bryan Gregson   Alaska's Inside Passage is one of nature's paramount gifts. It holds many treasures, including one of the remaining salmon forests, the Tongass National Forest. As the largest federal forest, the Tongass is a coastal temperate rainforest concealed in an [ READ MORE... ]
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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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