One of the country’s most widely read commercial fishing magazines — National Fisherman – has published a guest editorial by Juneau seiner David Clark about his support for the Tongass 77 campaign. Clark’s piece, called Talking Tongass, is in the June issue of the magazine. Read it here. In his “Dock Talk” column, Clark talks [...]

The mystique of an Alaska rainforest and its prolific salmon runs lured New Englander Tracy Sylvester to a job blowing up roads in the Tongass National Forest. As a U.S. Forest Service intern, Sylvester worked on a blasting crew that took out abandoned logging roads and old culverts blocking the passage of wild salmon. “I [...]

  The Tongass National Forest of Southeast Alaska is a globally significant producer of wild salmon and steps should be taken protect this resource from a variety of threats, according to a top fisheries biologist with the U.S. Forest Service who spoke in Juneau recently. Ron Medel, fisheries program manager for the Tongass National Forest, [...]

Congratulations to Tony Christianson, the mayor of Hydaburg, for winning a national award from the U.S. Forest Service for his leadership in fisheries stewardship. The Forest Service issued a statement recently that said Christianson of the Hydaburg Cooperative Association, the federally recognized tribe in the Prince of Wales community, is being honored for bridging Traditional [...]

A group of Alaska and Pacific Northwest residents – mostly commercial and sport fishermen, along with charter operators and guides, — are speaking out in Washington, D.C., this week on behalf of wild Alaska salmon from the Tongass National Forest.  They’re there as part of the Tongass 77 campaign. The trip, sponsored by Trout Unlimited, [...]