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• Restoration From the field

  Alaska’s Indigenous communities at work in the Tongass

  

  Southeast Alaska tribes have long cared for their lands. Now they’re at work restoring them. At nearly 17 million acres, Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is part of the world’s largest remaining intact temperate rain forest and produces around 30 percent of annual salmon catch in the western United States. The Tongass is home to…

• TROUT Magazine

  TROUT Digital Magazine: Looking back at 2021

  

  What a year it has been! There have been challenges and triumphs. The pandemic lingers, yet people find solace on the water more than ever now. I spent a little time looking through the archive of the hundreds of stories the TROUT team of contributors produced this year, and I am proud and grateful. We…

• Conservation

  Tongass Roadless Rule repeal makes no sense

  

  By Austin Williams This week, the U.S. Forest Service announced it is exempting the Tongass National Forest from the Roadless Rule, and in the process removing protections for more than 9 million acres of the nation’s top salmon-producing forest.  This is the latest effort by politicians catering to a failing old-growth logging industry that refuses…

• Voices from the river Conservation Fishing Travel TROUT Magazine

  At home on the Tongass

  

  My father once told me that “home is where you hang your hat.” I believed it, for a time, at least. I mean, as a young boy, who was I to argue with the wisdom of a grownup?  I’ve come to realize, though, that “home” is where everything seems to fall into place just right.…