From Forest to Ocean and Back
Like the salmon’s cyclical life pattern from forest to ocean and back, our approach to caring for the land, and the people who interact with it, travels full circle.
Humans depend on Earth’s wilderness for survival. Wilderness feeds economies, enables recreation, inspires us to learn how to engage respectfully, grow in harmonious interactions, and create balance. And yet if we stay on our current path, in 100 years no wilderness may remain.
Critical areas of the Tongass National Rainforest in Southeast Alaska, particularly near its rural communities, experience degraded fish and wildlife habitat. Logging and other factors have impaired the natural complexity of salmon streams and the surrounding forest. The effects of these actions are low biodiversity and lower populations of key species such as salmon and deer. Our objective is to address this, starting in areas close to home.
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Wildlife Camera Images from Our Lands
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WHITESTONE CREEK
1,789 meters of anadromous habitat now accessible by two species of pacific salmon after a new steel bridge with concrete abutments was installed to accelerate natural stream channelization.
GARTINA CREEK TRIBUTARY
2,286 meters of habitat for Coho, Pink, and Chum salmon will be restored by removing a wooden bridge that is collapsing on a tributary to Gartina Creek.
GAME CREEK TRIBUTARY
500 meters of juvenile coho salmon habitat has been restored by installing an aluminized corrugated metal culvert that re-established. the fish passage.
CAMP CREEK RIPARIAN ZONE
We are studying more than 300 meters of anadromous habitat at the Camp Creek riparian enhancement zone as dense canopy from tree re-growth may be impacting trophic levels in anadromous streams and limiting biological potential.
CAMP CREEK FISH PASSAGE
1,500 meters of anadromous habitat will be reopened when perched plastic corrugated culverts (48” and 18” diameters) are removed throughout the area.
FOREST IMPROVEMENTS
2,700 acres of forest stand improvement projects on private lands to accelerate the time to achieve a more old-growth-like biologically diverse forest condition.
Reducing our footprint
In addition to habitat restoration and carbon sequestration, we are working on rewilding of low-intensive grazing land in other parts of the world and are taking steps to make our operations more sustainable. Over the next 10 years, our combination of initiatives will cumulatively absorb almost 40 million tons of greenhouse gasses compared to our estimated annual emissions of 350,000 tons.
