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Tongass Tiny Home finds a home in Juneau
Posted by Erin McKinstry, KCAW | May 7, 2021
The Tongass Tiny Home project was a collaboration between the Sitka Conservation Society and Sitka High School. (Photo by Amelia Milling/SCS)
The Tongass Tiny Home project, a six-year collaboration between the Sitka Conservation Society and Sitka High School, has finally come to an end. The student-built tiny house was sold to a buyer in Juneau this spring. As part of KCAW’s Building Solutions series about affordable housing, Sitka Conservation Society’s Chandler O’Connell spoke with KCAW’s Erin McKinstry about lessons learned and the possibilities tiny homes hold for Sitka.
Stakeholders worry after profanity prompts federal fisheries council to tighten comment policies
Posted by Sage Smiley | May 5, 2021
Members of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council at their April 2021 meeting.
(Screenshot from Adobe Connect)
The council that manages Alaska’s federal fisheries has tightened its public comment policies. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council says recent profanity injected into the fish debate prompted the move. Some fishermen and community organizers say that’s a bunch of bull.
Listen to the story here.
For all the controversy and high-strung emotion that can accompany fisheries decision-making bodies, the federal council that manages fisheries in the North Pacific says it hadn’t
Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Nearly 130 individual volunteers performed more than 7,000 hours of service on the Chugach and Tongass National Forests in 2020, which the Forest Service highlighted in a release during National Volunteer Week.
Conservation and climate groups call on USDA to end taxpayer subsidies for Tongass logging
Tuesday PM (SitNews) Washington, D.C. - A coalition of conservation and climate organizations have submitted a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, asking his agency to “take the fiscally responsible step of prohibiting federal funds from being used to pay for, subsidize, design, study or construct roads for logging in the Tongass National Forest.”
The Tongass National Forest is the cornerstone of Southeast Alaska’s economy, attracting people from around the world for world-class recreation, hunting, and sport and commercial salmon fishing. In recent years, the tourism and commercial fishing industries that depend on a health Tongass have generated $1 billion apiece in annual economic benefit. The timber industry, on the other hand, presently provides less than 1% of jobs in the Southeast economy. Despite that reality, the Tongass timber program h