Habitat restoration is core to the mission of Trout Unlimited. One can see that at work on the ground wherever TU operates. On average, each of our more than 400 chapters donates well more than 1000 hours to habitat restoration and improvement every year. On Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest, for example, our decision to make habitat restoration a priority will simultaneously accomplish two objectives. First, it will help to engage TU members and volunteers. Second, the fact that we are restoring areas degraded by past road construction and logging practices makes our advocacy for protection of roadless areas more credible.
We believe that the economic opportunities associated with watershed restoration may provide a method of resolving the seemingly intractable fights among the Alaska congressional delegation, environmentalists, and the timber industry. As with any serious effort to protect and restore coldwater fish, in Southeast Alaska TU is focused on the habitat that sustains them.
Read more about our Pegleg Falls Project here.
Tim Bristol
Alaska Director
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