It’s officially spring, though you wouldn’t know it by the cool temperatures we have been getting for most of this month! Spring for TTCD is a flurry of activity. We are getting ready to start seedlings with the Tebughna School, hire Youth Garden Interns, deliver more salmon to more Tyonek households, and prep for our first habitat monitoring and restoration projects of the summer, including Pike Camp!
February is starting to bring longer days and with it, an eye toward summer planning. TTCD’s Habitat Monitoring and Restoration team is currently hiring Conservation Technicians for the coming 2026 field season to join our team in implementing annual biological field tasks. Visit ttcd.org/job-opportunities/ to learn more. Our team has also been focused on analyzing summer data, running the Tyonek Gather Market, and engaging Tebughna students in the Salmon in the Classroom program!
Happy New Year from TTCD! We kicked off the year by helping to organize an Alaska Tribal Conservation District Network Meeting, bringing together twenty-two TCDs from across the state for two and a half days of collaboration to chart a course for sustaining our partnerships into the future! Though we are deep in winter, our team is already starting to think about the upcoming summer season. Look out for summer job applications coming soon to our facebook page and website for field technician and garden youth positions!
TTCD is spending December delivering salmon caught by Tyonek fishermen to the Tyonek community, facilitating lessons at the Tebughna School on the salmon lifecycle, renewable energy, and invasive pike, and developing a habitat mapping model to identify essential Chinook habitat across the Chuitna drainage. Our team is working hard ahead of our annual holiday break, which runs from December 24 through January 1. TTCD wishes all of our newsletter readers, supporters, and Tyonek community members a happy holiday season!
With the first snow of the season now settled on the ground, TTCD has wrapped up its final day of field work for 2025 and is transitioning to winter activities. Lessons on ecology and conservation at the Tebughna School are being taught weekly, the hydroponics towers at the school are flourishing and being harvested from for school lunches, and the Tyonek Gather program continues to deliver locally grown Alaska food to Tyonek households – which still includes salmon caught by Tyonek fishermen!
Celebrating 20 years of the Tyonek Tribal Conservation District in the 2025 Annual Report!
Though fall is starting to settle in, our team remains in full swing! We’ve resumed weekly lessons on food systems and local ecology at the Tebughna School, while the Tyonek Garden continues to produce fresh harvests and host a vibrant weekly farmers market. Meanwhile, our Habitat Monitoring and Restoration team is wrapping up a busy field season with a strong focus on invasive species detection. Despite the rainy weather, we’re making the most of every moment and closing out the field season with purpose and energy.
It’s been a vibrant summer in Alaska, with sunny, warm days keeping both our plants and our field crews thriving. At the Tyonek Garden, we’re harvesting lots of veggies, and with the school year underway, we’ve resumed our work with the Tebughna School. Out in the field, we’re continuing salmon monitoring efforts and , as pictured, keeping all eyes on invasive plant control across the region.
Summer has officially arrived, and many of us at TTCD are trading office time for fieldwork as the season hits its stride. In July, we start to settle into the rhythm of long days and hands-on projects. With Pike Camp wrapped up and planting complete at the Tyonek Garden, we’re diving into our next round of summer work and looking ahead to the abundant harvests just around the corner.
June in Alaska is full of life—long days, green leaves, and wildflowers everywhere. The salmon are returning, and our team is energized for a summer full of projects, partnerships, and possibilities! Our Habitat Monitoring and Restoration team has kicked off Pike Camp to suppress invasive Northern pike, the Tyonek Garden is getting planted, and we’ve been engaging in king salmon fish sampling to help us better understand and protect the streams these fish rely on!
