On February 28th, the Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition’s Aquatic Resource Mitigation Coordinator will facilitate a meeting in Haines to discuss community wetlands identification and planning with a local advisory committee. The meeting is hosted by the Chilkoot...
Food security and self-reliance are critical components to building sustainable communities in Southeast Alaska. Southeast communities’ characteristic remoteness and isolation make transport and delivery of important resources such as food or fuel more...
Takshanuk Watershed Council organized a Youth Beach Cleanup effort this past August to improve water quality and bring awareness to the effects of improper waste disposal. Many of the beaches in this area, especially those with a southern exposure,...
The Chilkoot Indian Association and Takshanuk Watershed Council are working together on a Pilot Recreational Shellfish Beach Monitoring Program in the Haines area. The goal of this monitoring program is to build knowledge of local trends in paralytic...
The Takshanuk Watershed Council in Haines has instated a beach sampling program to test the town’s beaches for the presence of fecal coliform and enterococci bacteria. Impacts such as shoreline development, wastewater collection and treatment facilities,...
