US Navy officially apologizes for bombarding a native Alaskan community in 1882
Speaking Saturday in Angoon, Alaska, located about 100 miles south of the state capital of Juneau in the Tongass National ...
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Decision to Gut Tongass National Forest Protections
“We are deeply concerned about the protection of the Tongass National Forest, where our ancestors have lived for 10,000 years or more,” said Joel Jackson, tribal president of the Organized Village of ...
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Woven Peoples and Place: U.S. Forest Service’s Tongass collaboration a ‘promise to the future’
and building those communities into the way that the Tongass is managed is the future here.” “Working with tribes, supporting local voices and decisions” The Organized Village of Kake (OVK ...
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How 3 Native American tribes are fighting to protect sacred land from logging, oil pipelines, and a billion-dollar telescope
At 16 million acres, the Tongass is the country's largest national ... "We don't need more access, we're a small village of just over 700 people," Culp said, in a Skype interview with Business ...
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Alaska Native Tribes, Businesses, Forest Advocates Intervene to Protect Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule
The following statements were issued in response to today’s filing. Joel Jackson, president, Organized Village of Kake “The Roadless Rule has helped protect the Tongass National Forest from harmful ...
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With Trump’s new pro-timber order, Alaska conservationists poised to rehash Tongass Roadless Rule
Joel Jackson is the president of the Organized Village of Kake, an Alaska Native tribe located on Kupreanof Island in the heart of the Tongass. He’s been supporting the Roadless Rule since it ...