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!