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TU Alaska Director Honored for Conservation Work

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Paula Dobbyn

TU Alaska Director Tim Bristol (Photo by Darren Dorris) Trout Unlimited’s Alaska director, Tim Bristol, has been selected for a prestigious award honoring his contributions to Alaska environmental conservation. The Alaska Conservation Foundation recently named Bristol as the 2012 winner … Continue reading →

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Alaska’s Tongass National Forest Shifts Focus from Timber to Salmon

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Paula Dobbyn

Jim Leslie’s life used to revolve around cutting old-growth timber. These days the Vietnam vet and longtime resident of Wrangell, Alaska, makes his living behind the wheel of jet boats, ferrying visitors to picturesque areas to view wildlife, glaciers and … Continue reading →

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Alaska’s 2012 Commercial Salmon Fishing Season Gets Under Way

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Paula Dobbyn

The 2012 commercial salmon harvesting season is under way in Alaska. On the famed Copper River in Southcentral Alaska this week, hundreds of boats took part in harvesting wild king and sockeye salmon, some of the first salmon of the … Continue reading →

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Restoring Salmon Habitat: A Jobs Creator for Southeast Alaska

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Paula Dobbyn

The 17-million-acre Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska is a vast, wild landscape pulsing with some of the world’s most productive freshwater systems for salmon and trout. Everything here revolves around fish, whether it’s for income, recreation or simply putting … Continue reading →

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Fishermen to Forest Service: Grow Jobs, Protect Salmon

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Paula Dobbyn

Salmon anglers and U.S. taxpayers, take notice. It’s time to tell the U.S. Forest Service to stop misspending your money in one of America’s Best Wild Places, the Tongass National Forest of Southeast Alaska.  That’s the message from a group of … Continue reading →

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Youth Art Exhibit Celebrates Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Paula Dobbyn

  An exhibit featuring art made byKetchikan elementary students that celebrates Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is on display at the Tongass Historical Museum through February 25. “A Forest of Words: Youth Voices Celebrate the Tongass National Forest” is a … Continue reading →

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Budget Shift Needed for Tongass Salmon

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Paula Dobbyn

  Trout Unlimited and partner organizations are preparing to send a group of commercial fishermen, anglers, guides and yacht-tour operators to Washington, D.C., next month to push for stronger conservation of fish habitat in the Tongass National Forest of Southeast Alaska. The group will meet … Continue reading →

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TU Hits Trade Shows To Talk Up Tongass

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Paula Dobbyn

Trout Unlimited hit two large sportsman’s shows on the West Coast recently to introduce its Tongass 77 campaign to the hunting and angling community. TU’s Sportfish Outreach Coordinator for Southeast Alaska, Mark Hieronymus, spoke with many lodge owners and guides at the … Continue reading →

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The MeatEater Promotes Old Growth Conservation in Alaska’s Tongass

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Paula Dobbyn

Author and hunter Steven Rinella, host of Sportsman Channel’s MeatEater show, champions old growth conservation in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest in a new video. Produced as part of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership’s “Conservation Field Notes,” the video explores why habitat protection on … Continue reading →

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Tongass Guardians: Documenting Alaska’s Coastal Rain Forest

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Paula Dobbyn

Documentary photographer Julie Denesha has created a new series of stunning images of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The project — Tongass Guardians – was made possible through a U.S. Forest Service residency program for artists and writers called Voices of the … Continue reading →

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