Author: Angie Eldred

  This story was written by Marjorie Hennessey and has been shared courtesy of the Sitka Conservation Society. Read the original post here.   SCS was recently awarded another Community Capacity and Land Stewardship (CCLS) Grant from the National Forest Foundation.  The CCLS grant focuses on the use of local, young growth timber and habitat restoration. This grant will sustain and further develop the capacity-building momentum generated from last year’s grant.    One of the components of the previous grant was to provide local, young growth timber to the Sitka High School industrial arts classes.  Students were provided with red alder for building bed side tables, as well as Sitka spruce to construct a bike shelter.  The bike shelter will be finalized this summer and placed at the Sitka Sound Science Center.…

  Last month organizers from the Alaska Conservation Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, EcoTrust Canada, and Tides Canada brought together community leaders and natural resource management practitioners from communities in Alaska, coastal British Columbia, and Washington.   Recognizing that natural systems do not acknowledge political borders and that informed management of our shared coastline ecosystem requires open communication and collaboration, these groups came together in Prince Rupert, BC with the goals of sharing economic development and capacity building strategies and their relationship to stewardship, building stronger relationships and understanding between regional communities, sharing innovative governance, training, and monitoring strategies and tools, and exploring the desire and developing a plan for continue collaboration and communication throughout the region.   Several presentations were given by community practitioners working toward community based watershed management…