Sheila Jacobson

Sheila Jacobson

Sheila Jacobson has resided in Craig on Prince of Wales Island since 2003 and possesses a profound commitment to Southeast Alaska. She first set foot in the state in 1989 as a Forest Service volunteer on a stream restoration project in the Tongass National Forest,...
Chris Meade

Chris Meade

Chris was born in the Flushing Creek watershed (Forest Hills, New York), raised in the Rahway River watershed (Cranford, New Jersey) and has lived in the Gastineau Channel watershed (Juneau, Alaska) since 1991. He studied two years of forestry at Paul Smith’s College...
Julianne Thompson

Julianne Thompson

Julianne retired from the US Forest Service at the end of 2019 after three decades of working as a hydrologist and watershed program manager. She grew up in California, earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Natural Resources Management from Cal Poly San Luis...
Kenneth Weitzel

Kenneth Weitzel

Kenneth is Tlingit Chaak (Eagle), Teikweidi (Brown Bear), Xoots Hit (Bear House), Daakoosti (Personal Name), from Xuna Kaawu (The City of Hoonah). After 11 years of service active-duty Navy Kenneth was accepted into the University of Alaska, Fairbanks Geology Program...
Ben Kirkpatrick

Ben Kirkpatrick

Ben moved to southeast Alaska in 1981 for the amazing skiing and paddling opportunities. He started working for Alaska Department of Fish & Game in 1984 and spent over 10 years as the Habitat Biologist for northern southeast Alaska, before retiring to Haines in...