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Stories from Alaska

The Nature Conservancy protects fish and wildlife habitat across Alaska's vast landscape.

Lands, Waters and Vast Landscapes

We work in communities to help nature and people. In Alaska, where people and the natural world are so inextricably linked, our approach helps create lasting results. In the Tongass, in Bristol Bay, in the Matanuska-Susitna Basin and elsewhere, the Conservancy is at work protecting the Alaska we know and love.

Check out these stories about how your support for the Conservancy helps ensure the health and survival of the natural world that sustains us all.

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Sue Flensburg 215x143Sue Flensburg with her Super Cub in Alaska’s Bristol Bay. © Bridget Besaw/TNC
Working with People for Conservation in Bristol Bay

A tireless advocate for protecting the habitat that helps sustain subsistence tradition. Read about Sue Flensburg

Tongass Cabin 215x143A log cabin under construction in Alaska. © TNC
A Cabin in the Woods

A second-growth log cabin shows how one sawmill helps bring a forest in the Tongass back to health. Read about Tongass Cabin

Klawock Lagoon 215x143Migrating salmon benefit from the restored tidal flow in the north channel atv Klawock Lagoon on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. © TNC
A Salmon Passage Restored at Klawock Lagoon

A 50-year-old problem corrected, salmon are migrating with the tide once again. Learn about salmon migration at Klawock Lagoon

Black oystercatcher 125x83The black oystercatcher is among the dozens of bird species expected to flourish on Rat Island again. © Island Conservation
Hawadax Island

A name (and place) restored in Alaska's Aleutians.

Alaska Caribou herd 215x143caribou in the Alaska Arctic mecocrus/Flickr through a Creative Commons license.
Field Biology, Models, and Alaska's Caribou

Answers to questions about caribou in Alaska’s far north lie in the elegant confluence of two branches of the environmental sciences.

New Life for Puffins and Murres
rock sandpiper nest on Rat IslandA rock sandpiper nest on Rat Island. © Island Conservation
Removing Rats to Restore Seabirds in the Aleutian Islands

Restoring Rat Island is the most ambitious island habitat restoration project ever undertaken in the Northern Hemisphere.

Mae Syvrud's Smokehouse Provides for a Community
Mae Syvrud in the smokehouseMae Syvrud in her smokehouse in Dillingham, Alaska. © Clark James Mishler
One Family's Bristol Bay Salmon Tradition

Living near the bank of the Nushagak River, this family tends nets and a smokehouse each summer.

Solutions for Nature and Rural Communities
Tongass old growth forestTongass old-growth forest © John Schoen
From Conflict to Conservation in the Tongass Forest

The Nature Conservancy helped bring together scientists, loggers, business owners and others to chart a sustainable future on the Tongass.

Living with Salmon
Mat-Su Salmon PassageSalmon stream safe passage project in the Matanuska-Susitna Basin. © Bridget Besaw/The Nature Conservancy
Keeping Salmon Habitat Healthy for Everyone

The Conservancy is bringing together people who care about wild salmon in the Matanuska-Susitna Basin.

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Close Encounters with Nature

Whether scary or exciting, nature has a way of sneaking up on you. See stories

Arden OConnor 215x143Arden O’Connor. © Lajla LeBlanc

Nature Matters

Hear some of nature's success stories and see how nature matters to us all. Watch videos

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