Restoring Habitat For Climate Resiliency

There is a saying: “I fish, therefore I am.” In Alaska, we are facing compounding impacts from hundreds of years of colonization, resource extraction, and now endless human-caused environmental disasters of devastating proportions. All have seriously compromised our Native and rural-community subsistence ways of life that are critical to our survival as once-proud and thriving hunting-gathering and salmon nation cultures along coastal waterways.

As pressures continue to mount, protecting and restoring endangered wild salmon and herring habitat is the keystone to our survival, cultural resilience, food security and regenerative economies. Together, we can change the world, yet it must begin and happen on the frontlines in rural and coastal communities. In partnership, we can regain control of our wild and traditional food sources and restore the habitat. Habitat is life. Salmon is life.