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Welcome to Sitka Conservation Society
Sitka Conservation Society (SCS) has been working to protect the temperate rainforest of southeast Alaska and Sitka's quality of life since 1967. We are based in the small coastal town of Sitka, Alaska, located on the west coast of Baranof Island in the heart of the Tongass National Forest.
The Tongass National Forest, at 17 million acres, is the largest national forest in the U.S.and the largest remaining temperate rainforest in the world. The Tongass, which comprises almost all of Southeast Alaska, is managed by the U.S. Forest Service, but it is owned by all U.S.citizens. View map of the Tongass.
Our Tongass Timber Sale Information Center and GIS Mapping Center track all timber and road development threats across the forest. SCS is also active in educating Sitkans and visitors about the uniqueness of southeast Alaska and the threats to the wonderful place we call home.
Please browse through the left menu to learn about our work, and browse the top menu to learn more about us and the places we love.
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Emission Inventory Analysis for Sitka
This summer, with the leadership and support of the Sitka Conservation Society and the City of Sitka, Sitka completed the first step of the ICLEI Communities for Climate Protection Campaign: an inventory of Sitka’s community and municipal greenhouse gas emissions.
To see the final report click here
Sitka Farmers Market
Sitka’s First Farmers Market Season was a Success!
This past summer, Sitka held three farmer’s market, a result of a key action area identified at the Sitka Health Summit in the spring of 2008. The markets featured local seafood (fresh, frozen and cooked and ready to eat), locally grown vegetables, live entertainment, locally brewed and roasted coffee, kids’ activities, local arts and crafts, and a variety of other items gathered or made in Sitka.
Sitka Conservation Society has helped with the administration of funds for this project as well as organizing and working at the markets. These events were also sponsored by the Sitka Health Summit, Alaska Longline Fisherman’s Association, ANB/ANS, Baranof Island Housing Authority, University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, Sitka Advancing Our Community, SEARHC Health Promotion and Diabetes Prevention programs, and the State of Alaska Comprehensive Cancer Control Program.
The Sitka Farmers Market will be back next year with a full schedule.
To see photos of the Farmers' Markets go to: http://www.flickr.com/groups/sitkafarmersmarket/
To learn more about the Sitka Health Summit and the Market go to: http://www.sitkahealthsummit.org/Market.html
Buying a Wood Burning Stove in Sitka
As oil prices continue to rise and as Sitka’s electric demand approaches the supply
limits, many Sitkan’s are looking for alternative options for home
heating. Across the board, everyone is
choosing some sort of “dual-fuel” heating system that can use electricity when
there is an ample supply and an alterative when hydro-electric sources are
stretched thin.
More often,
home owners are choosing wood heating as a carbon-neutral option that takes
advantage of local resources. Choosing a
wood burning stove can be difficult. The
following article outlines the experiences of some of our members and what they
learned as they choose a stove for their home:
Click here to read the article
2008 Tongass Forest Plan
The Tongass Forest Plan Amendment Record of Decision, Final Forest Plan and Final EIS have been released
On the day after Valentine’s Day, February 15th,
2008, the Bush administration officially released the new Tongass Land
Management Plan (TLMP) as a belated token of affection to the timber industry. The new TLMP opens up 3.4 million acres to
logging and mining. Nearly two-thirds of
those acres are now roadless and timber extraction in those areas will require
generous public road construction subsidies in order to generate raw log
exports for mills in the lower 48 and in Asia.
The outgoing administration proposes to
extract up to 267 million board feet of timber per year - about six times the
amount that timber operators have been willing to purchase annually since the
turn of the century.
Although this new plan generously bestows affection on the
timber industry, it leaves other users of forest resources broken-hearted by
compromising recreational, educational, fisheries, subsistence and wildlife
values. The Sitka Community Use Area
will face further loss of winter deer habitat and further degradation of
important salmon habitat. The Sitka
Conservation Society will file an administrative appeal of this new plan in
order to encourage the Forest Service to develop a plan that meets the real
needs of Tongass National Forest users in the 21st century – a plan
that prioritizes restoration and allows for the maintenance and growth of the
region’s key economic sectors:
subsistence, fisheries and outdoor recreation and tourism.
Learn more...
Groundtruthing reports available!
With the Groundtruthing Project, we are staying
at the leading edge of critical Tongass conservation issues. We spent the first two years of the project focusing
on old growth timber projects and collecting data to challenge upcoming sales. In 2007 and 2008 we are evaluating what it would
take to repair the ecological damage caused by a half-century timber harvest on the Tongass.
Click
here to see a sample of our reports we've produced .
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Energy Conservation Brochures
Don Young's Sealaska Lands Bill
Update from the field…..
