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ObservertheCRUISING AND CONSERVATION IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA • PUBLISHED BY THE BOAT COMPANY
SPRING 2018
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It is hard to believe that Spring is already upon us and I find myself
spinning as to what to write in my message to all of our loyal friends
and clients. In just a few weeks the LISERON and MIST COVE will head
north for our 38th season plying the waters of The Tongass National
Forest, my daughter is turning double digits, and the conservation
fight in Southeast Alaska remains the same as when my father first
visited the Tongass as a deckhand on a fishing boat working for the
A&P. It is amazing that as much as times change, they remain the same.
As the second generation of the family to take the helm of The Boat
Company, I sit at my desk (the same desk my father sat behind at
home for as long as I can remember) and begin to formulate what my
message and legacy will be, along with continuing to promote that
of what my fathers’ vision and purpose of The Boat Company is/was.
For me, telling the real story about the legacy of conservation work spearheaded by The
Boat Company, The McIntosh Foundation and both my parents seems the most logical first
step in my journey. As we have written about in past issues of The Observer, we have taken
on the challenge of producing a full-length documentary, tentatively titled “The Tongass;
Americas Vanishing Rainforest”.
One of the first things I have learned about documentary film-making, in fact any film-
making I would venture to say, is just how much films can cost to make. It is for this reason
that I am requesting your help. The Boat Company will be launching something similar
to a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the film, but we will also be reaching out to
individuals and foundations with an interest in helping to fund a film such as ours. If you or
anyone you know might be interested in funding this project at a significant level, please
contact me, and I would be more than happy to share with you our sizzle reel, look book
and full budget for this film.
All of the above being said, “The Tongass; Americas Vanishing Rainforest” is going to cost
roughly $600,000 to produce beyond what The McIntosh Foundation and Boat Company
have already invested (just under $400,000 in cash and in-kind donations of time and
services in Alaska). I hope that we are able to make this film happen. Telling the story
of my parents’ legacy, The Boat Company, and the conservation movement to save The
Tongass from logging interests over a 40 year period thru the eyes of one family is now in
full swing. Keep your eyes out for funding opportunities, as well as future showings of the
film as it progresses. In 2020 the year of The Boat Companies 40th anniversary, the film
will be making the film festival rounds. Sundance film festival here we come.
A Family of StorytellersContact info:
Corporate Office
The Boat Company
1200 Eighteenth Street NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 338-8055 phone
(202) 234-0745 fax
www.theboatcompany.org
Conservation Programs
and Reservations
Street Address:
18819 3rd Ave. NE, Ste. 200
Poulsbo, WA 98370
Mailing Address:
PO Box 1839
Poulsbo, WA 98370
(877) 647-8268 TOLL FREE
(360) 697-4242 phone
(360) 697-5454 fax
email: [email protected]
Staff: Hunter McIntoshPresident / CEO
Bob VeyComptroller
Ken GerkenDirector of Operations & Engineering
Debra GerkenOperations/HR Assistant
Kathy NissleyDirector of Reservations & Guest Services
Mary Ann ConfarOffice Manager
Miri DimofReservations Assistant
Board of Directors:
Winsome McIntosh
Hunter McIntosh
Thu Pham
Liz Sutherland Riney
John Thomas
Design by:
Erica de Flamand-Shugg
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BY HUNTER H. McINTOSH
Fishing in Alaska with a Jackson Coosa HD Kayak
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RICH + ROSIE | LISERON 2017
“Thanks for giving usthe greatest experience
of our lives, for keeping ussafe and for fulfilling my
lifetime dream of Alaska!”
WRITTEN BY DR. BRANDON D. SHULER
Read The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from
a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben. No, really read it. Aside from the new ageish
sounding title, it’s a fascinating read dripping in scientific discovery that outlines
the interconnectedness of nature and particularly trees. There are interesting takes
on trees and their stretches of communications to humans as well. But trees, as
much as they may be the silently chattering chatterboxes of nature, as we know
from Tolkien and other writers, they are shy creatures who live solitary lives.
Nowhere is this more illustrated than on Campbell Island, New Zealand.
In 2017, in an effort to pinpoint the start of the current Anthropocene Epoch,
a geologic measure determined and defined by the effects of humankind’s
meddling and pollution of the planet, a group of scientists ventured to the farthest
south subantarctic Campbell Island that sits 700km south of Bluff, New Zealand.
The island, scientists argue, is far enough
south and far enough removed from the
congestion and pollution of human and
urban sprawl that its trees could hold the
story of human impacts on the planet
through the readings of the island’s trees’
rings. The beauty of this island, though,
is that it only has one standing tree. The
tree: a Sitka Spruce.
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The Outspoken Nature of Human and the Secret Hidden Life of Trees
"Humans are pretty oblivious to signsand stories around us, while thousandsof years old spruce don’t forget and record everything."
Yes, you heard that right, a Sitka Spruce
growing a planet away from its brothers
and sisters in the Tongass. The tree, at least
according to the Guinness Book of World
Records, is the loneliest tree on the planet.
The spruce is the only tree on the island
and was planted by Lord Ranfurly, Governor
of New Zealand from 1897-1904, as a claim
stake at the height of imperialism. Human
state building aside, Lord Ranfurly’s actions
created a wonderful opportunity for future scientists to measure human impacts within
the tree’s rings in almost an isolated and controlled natural habitat and little tread upon
ambient atmosphere.
Left to its own devices, the loneliest tree—and let’s name him Prufrock after T.S. Eliot’s
protagonist in the “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” because I envision this tree
staring across oceans wanting to connect with his fellow spruces—did not grow vertically
as his kind do but exploded outward looking like the lushest Christmas tree in the tree lot.
Prufrock’s isolation, though, gave him the unique ability to give a narrative of humankind
that is unheard of.
First, his rings tell a story of increasing carbon in the atmosphere at a steady rate that
increases as scientists work outward from his core to his younger rings. Along that
spectrum, Prufrock records war, and population growth, and nuclear testing. Prufrock’s
narrative and tale makes him almost the silent giant in the laboratory letting the humans
argue over the exact start of the Anthropocene, while he records and understands that
it is the birth of the Nuclear Age that really defines the tipping point for we lowly and
short-living humans. Humans are pretty oblivious to signs and stories around us, while
thousands of years old spruce don’t forget and record everything.
Scientists, particularly those of The Geologic Society are split. There is one school that
believes the Anthropocene began in the 1650s with massive deforestation and populating
of essentially the entire northern hemisphere. The second school defines the start of the
Anthropocene as the late-1800s and the rise of the Industrial Revolution and the copious
amounts of carbon dumped into the atmosphere through mass industrial production. The
third school and maybe the wakeup call is the beginning of widespread above ground
atomic and nuclear weapons testing in the 1940s in the South Pacific.
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"But trees, as much as they may be the silently chattering chatterboxes of nature… they are shy creatures who live solitary lives."
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All schools are valid, and I reckon in the geologic spaces of time, 200 years are
merely a blink. Take the amount of learning and discovery and impact in those 200
years from the Enlightenment to the Nuclear Age then they are all right. Whatever
intelligence that comes after humankind—be it artificial intelligence created in Silicon
Valley, an alien race yet to discover us, or merely a new rise of evolutionary design—the
measure of human’s impact on this planet, its ecosystems, and its atmosphere will be
profound and a cautionary tale for future carbon-based organisms. Prufrock will be
standing sentinel to time for a few more millennia recording our petty ramblings and
destruction of the world around us.
As Prufrock stands sentinel, though, a question arises. As he measures and records the
doings and damage of those that planted him, will there be a thriving humankind to
read his tale or will the current iteration of humankind have waned and disappeared
under its own hubris and environmental decline. Scientists predict that by 2050 there
will be more plastic in the oceans than fish, this is by mere fiat of overfishing and
continued plastics pollution.
Many scientists argue that the ocean has already began an irreversible trend of acidifying that
threatens the extinction of the world’s coral reefs—reefs hold the greatest biodiversity on the
planet and are a bellwether of the ocean’s health—and they could be dead and ‘extinct’ as soon
as the 2030s. More frightening, though, is the mass extinctions—if you’re looking for a great
summertime read, read Susan Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction—of the planets insects and
mega-faunas. Look around, humans are now one of the largest creatures on the planet, being
the biggest creature on the planet never seems to work out for that species, even if in Prufrock’s
world being big ain’t so bad.
"The Tongass whispered to me and consoled me. She told me long secrets that the ancients heard, but we have lost sight of.
The Tongass is not a forest. The Tongass is not a place. The Tongass is a cathedral in the most glorious of ways, and it’s a therapist that heals without words.
The Tongass, she told me and taught me, is a place of rejuvenation."
– DR. BRANDON D. SHULER
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“We just couldn’t get enough of Alaska.
We’ll be back in 2018. We’re going later so we
don’t miss Sammy and Moby; need to stock the
freezer with the former, and get slimed in a
bubble-net by the latter.”
RICH + ROSIE | LISERON 2017
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WRITTEN BY DR. BRANDON D. SHULER
Legacies are a weighty thing. Walking in hard-to-fill Xtra-tuffs is even more
challenging than stepping into a life and legacy defining role. Current Boat
Company president Hunter McIntosh has embarked upon a journey with
filmmakers Maxine Trump and Josh Granger of Helpman Productions, writer
Brandon D. Shuler, and photographer John Land Le Coq of Fishpond U.S.A.
to capture Michael & Winsome McIntosh’s Alaskan-sized legacy of protecting
the Tongass National Forest and its wildlife. In the process, Hunter questions
and redefines what the Tongass means to him and finds how to define his
own legacy while finding and honoring his parents'.
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Mr. McIntosh, a fisherman, a canner, and a
consummate philanthropist understood that
America’s wild spaces needed protection and
innately understood the nation’s conflicted
attitudes toward our natural resources. He
also understood that America has a complex
relationship with the frontier: one that the
human animal was to go forth into and conquer
for the species best interest. Nowhere can this be
better illustrated than in America’s Last Frontier,
Alaska, and its Tongass National Forest. The
Tongass: America’s Vanishing Rainforest seeks to
introduce the Tongass and Mr. McIntosh to those
in the lower-48.
The Tongass is the world’s largest temperate
rainforest, and since its designation in 1907
under President Theodore Roosevelt’s National
Forest Service, the forest’s thousands-years old
trees have been the target of extractive pulping
interests. Most have approached the Tongass for
its natural resources—salmon, lumber, wildlife,
and cheap local labor—but few have worked to
preserve the forest for its intrinsic value, its
natural ecological services, and its natural wealth of
beauty. Michael McIntosh is one of these men
that has, and he has passed this legacy on to
Hunter who must determine where he fits within his
father’s footsteps.
Michael McIntosh, the wealthy heir to the A&P
fortune, parlayed his five-million-dollar inheritance
into the 40-million-dollar McIntosh Foundation. A
renowned American philanthropist, Mr. McIntosh
held a special place in his heart for the Tongass. In
1980, as President Ronald Reagan’s administration
began deregulating many of the protections that
the Nixon and Carter administrations had put in
place to protect the Tongass, Mr. McIntosh opened
The Tongass: America’s Vanishing Rainforest seeks to Cement The Boat Company FoundersMichael & Winsome McIntosh’s Tongass Legacy
Most have approached the
Tongass for its natural
resources—salmon, lumber,
wildlife, cheap local labor—
but few have worked to preserve
the forest for its intrinsic value,
its natural ecological services,
and its natural wealth of beauty. ,,
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the first eco-tourism cruise line dedicated solely to educating cruisers on the forest’s ecological
importance, its beauty, its fragility, and the legislative balance that places its very existence in
danger against extractive uses.
In the 38 years since The Boat Company’s founding, what started with one refurbished
minesweeper, has turned into a conservation powerhouse dedicating over 30-million
dollars to conservation in that time, while providing seed money to organizations such as Earth
Justice, Greenpeace, the Wilderness Society, and the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council. Mr.
McIntosh’s vision has shaped much of the legislation that has protected the Tongass, while his
family fortune, the McIntosh Foundation, The Boat Company, and his love of the wilderness
has funded many of the lawsuits that have fought against initiatives that have sought to undo
those protections Mr. McIntosh battled to get into place.
The Tongass: America’s Vanishing Rainforest is a tribute to Michael McIntosh’s and The Boat
Company’s legacies, while serving as a coming of age story as his son Hunter McIntosh takes
the helm of The Boat Company. Using the forest as the main character, this film will tell Mr.
McIntosh’s story through the eyes of Hunter as he struggles to articulate and to forge his own
conservation legacy as he raises the standard to continue many of the same battles his father
fought and won and lost.
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To learn more about the documentary, The Tongass: America’s Vanishing Rainforest please contact:
Hunter McIntosh at [email protected]
Mr. McIntosh’s vision has shaped much of the legislation
that has protected the Tongass, while his family fortune,
the McIntosh Foundation, The Boat Company, and his love
of the wilderness has funded many of the lawsuits that have
fought against initiatives that have sought to undo those
protections Mr. McIntosh battled to get into place. ,,,,
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• • • • •
"Every single crew member was friendly, outgoing
and fun to be with. They shared their enthusiasm
for Alaska, as well as their knowledge.
I always felt that we were responding to our
environment rather than adhering to a schedule."
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A NOTE RE: A LETTER FROM PAUL OLSON
When we attend conferences and trade shows, we are often met with a perplexed look when we describe The Boat Company as a not-for-profit, conservation education, cruise/tour operator. The only one of its kind to our knowledge. The next question is usually, “How does that work?”
We then go into our pitch about conservation, reinvestment of income beyond operating costs and overhead, etc., and the conversations usually transition from there to reservations, availability, and planning a trip, next steps. We thought it would be good to share with you some of the ways in which we try to effect change in the Tongass.
On the pages that follow you can read a document that our Legal Consultant and In State Representative Paul Olson worked on for several months, with the inclusion of several of our competitors input in order to try to prevent yet another timber sale. Enjoy the read, it is a masterful piece of work that we can only hope will sway Forest Supervisor, Earl Stewart.
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• • • • •
"This trip with The Boat Company was one of the best
we have been on. The McIntosh Foundation’s mission
is an important task. Keep up the good work.
You are educating a lot of folks about the importance
of conserving our wild lands."
ANDY HODGES | LISERON 2015
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2018 Cruising Schedules
M/V LISERON
To reserve your trip, contact: 877.647.8268 | [email protected]
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M/V LISERON
Dates Boarding Disembarking
May 11 – May 18
May 18 – May 25
May 25 - June 1
June 1 - June 8
June 8 – June 15
June 15 – June 22
June 22 – June 29
June 29 – July 6
July 6 – July 13
July 13 – July 20
July 20 – July 27
July 27 – Aug 3
Aug 3 – Aug 10
Aug 10 – Aug 17
Aug 17 – Aug 24
Aug 24 – Aug 31
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Dates Boarding Disembarking
M/V MIST COVE
May 11 – May 18
May 18 – May 25
May 25 - June 1
June 1 - June 8
June 8 – June 15
June 15 – June 22
June 22 – June 29
June 29 – July 6
July 6 – July 13
July 13 – July 20
July 20 – July 27
July 27 – Aug 3
Aug 3 – Aug 10
Aug 10 – Aug 17
Aug 17 – Aug 24
Aug 24 – Aug 31
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Sitka
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Cruising Schedules 2019
To reserve your trip, contact: 877.647.8268 | [email protected]
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Dates Boarding Disembarking
May 12 – May 19
May 19 – May 26
May 26 - June 2
June 2 - June 9
June 9 – June 16
June 16 – June 23
June 23 – June 30
June 30 – July 7
July 7 – July 14
July 14 – July 21
July 21 – July 28
July 28 – Aug 4
Aug 4 – Aug 11
Aug 11 – Aug 18
Aug 18 – Aug 25
Aug 25 – Sept 1
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Dates Boarding Disembarking
M/V MIST COVE
May 12 – May 19
May 19 – May 26
May 26 - June 2
June 2 - June 9
June 9 – June 16
June 16 – June 23
June 23 – June 30
June 30 – July 7
July 7 – July 14
July 14 – July 21
July 21 – July 28
July 28 – Aug 4
Aug 4 – Aug 11
Aug 11 – Aug 18
Aug 18 – Aug 25
Aug 25 – Sept 1
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2020 Cruising Schedules
M/V LISERON
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Dates Boarding Disembarking
May 16 – May 23
May 23 – May 30
May 30 - June 6
June 6 - June 13
June 13 – June 20
June 20 – June 27
June 27 – July 4
July 4 – July 11
July 11 – July 18
July 14 – July 21
July 18 – July 25
July 25 – Aug 1
Aug 1 – Aug 8
Aug 8 – Aug 15
Aug 15 – Aug 22
Aug 22 – Sept 5
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Dates Boarding Disembarking
M/V MIST COVE
May 16 – May 23
May 23 – May 30
May 30 - June 6
June 6 - June 13
June 13 – June 20
June 20 – June 27
June 27 – July 4
July 4 – July 11
July 11 – July 18
July 14 – July 21
July 18 – July 25
July 25 – Aug 1
Aug 1 – Aug 8
Aug 8 – Aug 15
Aug 15 – Aug 22
Aug 22 – Sept 5
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"We loved our trip so much! Everything was outstanding –
quite bittersweet when we had to say goodbye
to the captain and staff. They were the best."
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TRAVELLER'S SCRAPBOOK
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“To see Alaska withThe Boat Company
is to see Alaskaeven some Alaskans
never get to see.”
PICKLED FENNEL PREPARATION
In a small saucepan, combine the vinegar, water, sugar, salt, pepper-
corns, red pepper flakes, garlic and grapefruit zest and heat until the
sugar is completed dissolved. Pack the sliced fennel bulb in a clean
glass jar or a non-reactive bowl. Pour the pickling liquid over the sliced
fennel bulb and allow it to come to room temperature, then refrigerate.
CEVICHE PREPARATION
Carefully run your fingers across the fish fillets and with tweezers,
remove any pin bones that you find. Slice the fish across the grain and
then cut into cubes. Place the cubed fish in a bowl and refrigerate.
Cut the top and bottom from the grapefruit, then slice away the peel
and the pith until the flesh is exposed. Holding the grapefruit in the
palm of your hand, slice between each membrane to release the seg-
ments into the bowl. After all of the segments are released, squeeze the
remaining juice from the grapefruit into the bowl. Add the minced shal-
lots to the grapefruit segments. Thinly slice one Serrano chile and add
it to the grapefruit segments, then refrigerate.
In a small bowl, combine the lime juice, minced garlic, agave syrup and
the minced Serrano chile. Stir well and refrigerate.
When you are ready to serve the ceviche, combine the fish with the
grapefruit segments and gently mix it together with your hands. Just
prior to serving, give the lime juice mixture a stir, then pour over the
ceviche. Mix gently with your hands and pour onto a chilled serving
platter. Allow 2 to 3 minutes for the fish to “cook” in the lime juice.
Garnish with the pickled fennel, fresh mint leaves and lemon balm and
serve immediately.
PICKLED FENNEL INGREDIENTS
1 to 2 medium fennel bulbs,
trimmed of fronds and sliced thinly
1 cup white wine vinegar
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon black peppercorns
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 clove garlic, smashed
1 tablespoon grapefruit zest
CEVICHE INGREDIENTS
2-3 fillets of rockfish, cleaned,
deboned and cut into small cubes
2 Serrano chiles
(one minced, one thinly sliced)
1 garlic clove, minced
1 red grapefruit
Several leaves of lemon balm
or mint (or a combination of both)
2 teaspoons agave syrup
2 limes, juiced
2 small shallots, minced
• • • • •
"My appreciation for the Boat Company, what it
stands for and the way it shares that with others...
...it grows with each trip."
JUDY B. | MIST COVE 2014
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FROM THE GALLEY
Rockfish andRed Grapefruit Ceviche
with Quick Pickled Fennel
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"As a teenager in America’s largest wilderness, he [McIntosh]
spent time with trees that were 1,000-1,500 years old.
He had always had favourite trees as a child, and now a
passion for them set in. ‘To this day,’ he told me, ‘I’m more
affected by the way we treat trees than the way we treat people.’"
MARTIN GOODMAN
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On Wednesday March 21st, Congressional leadership reached a deal on the FY2018 omnibus
spending package that DOES NOT INCLUDE Senator Lisa Murkowski’s long-sought Tongass
“death” riders!
These last few months, the environmental community has been watching and engaging
lawmakers on Senator Murkowski’s two ‘Tongass Death Blow’ riders, which she has been
working to attach to the spending bill over the last few weeks. The riders would have
created an exclusion for the Tongass and the Chugach National Forests from the Roadless
Rule and would have thrown out the 2016 Tongass Land Management Plan (TLMP)
Amendment, the plan that guides how the Forest Service manages the resources within the
Tongass. The omnibus measure was passed by the House earlier today and now moves to
the Senate, where it is also expected to pass.
That the riders are not included in the omnibus spending package at a time when Republicans
control the House, Senate, and White House, and when Senator Murkowski herself both
chairs the powerful Senate Committee on Natural Resources and sits on the Appropriations
Committee, is a minor miracle that sends a powerful message about the extent to which the
citizens of this great nation, and Boat Company Clients will show up for the Tongass when
our wild places, way of life, and progressive vision for a future beyond logging is threatened.
THANK YOU for every email you’ve written, every call you made or letter you’ve sent. These
actions made a difference!
And while we are taking the time to celebrate this achievement, we must remember this
fight is not over! It is the same fight Michael McIntosh started over 40 years ago, and the
current generation of The Boat Company passionately continues today.
The Roadless Rule and TLMP Amendment riders are two tools in Senator Murkowski’s
perpetual assault on the Tongass that we know she will use again, and soon. Senator
Murkowski is going to attach them to must-pass legislation over and over again in the year
to come, and we will need everyone on board and ready to show up to defend our forest
from her attacks when they do, just like you have done over the last few months.
While much of the fight for the Tongass continues, today this is a cause for celebration for
people everywhere who love and care about Southeast Alaska, our vibrant forests, and our
very wildest places.
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All Decisions on The TongassLead to Washington DC
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“This was our secondtrip on the Mist Cove.
We loved this trip as much,If not more, than the last.
”JIM + HARRIETT | MIST COVE 2015
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