Advocating for Southeast Alaska Waters

The Waters of Southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaska is as much water as it is land. Here, the interconnected web of the Inside Passage is home to lush wild salmon rivers and immense watersheds that feed the trees of the Tongass and the oceans of the world. It is a place teeming with biodiversity — from whales and wolves, to eagles, deer and bears, to salmon and human communities.

There is wisdom here too, connection, balance, and resilience — lessons learned through millennia of change and adaptation.

Yet, balance is becoming more difficult in a world of rapid change and large-scale resource extraction.

What We Do

Our Clean Water Program supports Southeast Alaskan communities in having a strong voice, developing solutions for managing, protecting, and benefiting from local waterways, and learning from local knowledge about what works for maintaining balance in this place.