Sitkoh River: Good Fishing Begins With A Bulldozer

January 25, 2013
Pacific Fishing
By Paula Dobbyn

Edwards spoke to a group of reporters and fishermen visiting the Sitkoh River restoration project on Chichagof Island, in Southeast Alaska's 17 million-acre Tongass National Forest. It was a joint effort by the Forest Service, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Trout Unlimited, and Sitka Conservation Society to fix what some describe as a Tongass "hammered gem" - a wounded but
high-value salmon-producing watershed in one of Alaska's most prolific fish nurseries.