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The Nature Conservancy protects Earth's most important natural places — for you and future generations — through great science and smart partnerships.
Indigenous people who live in Bristol Bay help guide our work to protect salmon habitat.
Our field research in Bristol Bay headwaters tells us where the wild salmon are.
Nature Conservancy magazine shows how our field work helps protect wild salmon habitat in Bristol Bay.
The Nature Conservancy works to ensure that wildlife and people remain resilient to climate change.
Helping Nature Adapt to Change
Across Alaska, we need to respond to the threat of climate change
The Tongass National Forest of Southeast Alaska is home to the largest intact temperate rainforest remaining on Earth.
The Nature Conservancy helped to ease forest conflict by establishing the Tongass Futures Roundtable.
Change Can Begin in a Single Watershed
People are coming together to map out a positive future for fish, wildlife and people in a Tongass watershed.
See Alaska's coastlines from the air in these ShoreZone.org images.
Rat Island is for the birds once again.
Subsistence fishing on Kanakanak Beach on Nushagak River in Bristol Bay, Alaska. © Clark James Mishler
People and Tradition on the Nushagak River in Alaska's Bristol Bay
The marine habitats of Southeast Alaska support a thriving commercial salmon fishery. © Bridget Besaw/The Nature Conservancy
Salmon Country: Protecting Fisheries
Alaska's sustainable commercial fisheries rely on healthy habitat.
Salmon Country: Restoring Streams
Restoring streams supports wild salmon and a range of wildlife.
Nature runs on wild salmon. So do local economies.
Rich and Productive Bering Sea
The Bering, Beaufort and Chukchi seas teem with life.
Restoring Rat Island for the Birds
With invasive predators gone, seabirds can return to Rat Island.
Staff
The Nature Conservancy has field offices in Anchorage, Juneau and Craig.
Board of Trustees
By setting policy for The Nature Conservancy in Alaska, the board of trustees helps achieve tangible, lasting conservation results in Alaska.
Your support is helping the Conservancy's work to chart a more sustainable future for the Tongass rainforest. Read More
Protecting salmon habitat in Bristol Bay headwaters relies on support from people like you. Read More
Keep up with Alaska's blogger-in-residence for ramblings on birds, salmon, and nature news in the 49th state.
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