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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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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 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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