Conservancy Staff and Partners

Tim Troll and Koliganek resident Elia Ishnook during a TEK gathering session.
© Clark James Mishler

Tim Troll is the Conservancy's director of southwest Alaska programs. Troll, an attorney who specialized in municipal and Alaska Native law, has over 25 years of experience in rural southwestern Alaska, including stints as city manager for St. Mary’s, city administrator for Sand Point, and CEO for Choggiung Ltd. Troll also commercial fished for several years, and in his position with Choggiung, helped to form the Nushagak-Mulchatna—Wood/Tikchik Land Trust, of which he remains the part-time executive director.

It was the Nushagak Traditional Use Conservation project and the focus on wild salmon systems that drew Troll to the Conservancy. “Salmon are at the heart of this region. You have a several-thousand-year-old subsistence fishery. You have a 120-year-old commercial fishery. Now there’s also a diversified sportfishery. Salmon are the basic staple of life and the foundation for the cash economy. Conserving salmon is a way of protecting everything from other fish and wildlife to the Native way of life to the economy.”

Partners in Nushagak River Watershed Conservation

Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Bristol Bay Native Association
Curyang Tribal Council

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Nushagak/Mulchatna and Wood/Tikchik Land Trust

Nushagak Mulchatna Watershed Council

Southwest Alaska Conservation Council