by Scott Harris | Aug 26, 2014 | Blog Reports, Focus Areas, Natural Resource Stewardship, Reports & Media, Trip Reports
Last week we teamed up with a watershed crew from the Angoon Community Association and the Tongass National Forest to monitor the effectiveness of restoration work on Sitkoh River and the forests near the old Todd Cannery in Peril Strait. This is our third year of...
by Scott Harris | May 26, 2014 | Blog Reports, Natural Resource Stewardship, Reports & Media
May was a busy month! The Twelvemile Creek Monitoring Project was in full swing. At the beginning of the month, we hosted a teacher-in-service training with the University of Alaska Natural Heritage Program and the US Forest Service. Teachers from the Prince of Wales...
by Scott Harris | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog Reports, Natural Resource Stewardship
In early April, Bob and I visited Kasaan, Hydaburg, and the Twelvemile Monitoring Project. You can read that post here. Bob’s report on that visit can be read here. Following that visit I shifted back to local and state-wide work. Locally, we’re working...
by Scott Harris | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog Reports, Natural Resource Stewardship
In order to meet the growing interest in community-based stream habitat assessment, we hosted a 2-day training (April 21 and 22) in the assessment protocols used by the Tongass National Forest, called Tier II. Representatives from four different rural communities...
by Scott Harris | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog Reports, Natural Resource Stewardship
Much of my work over the past month has been focused locally in Sitka and on the Twelvemile Creek Monitoring and Outreach Project. Now that the Science Mentor Program and other school programs are winding down I will be focusing more on POW programs (12Mile, Hydaburg,...