Autumn has arrived, and here at TTCD we’re enjoying this beautiful time of year. The 2016 summer season has featured many successful projects and we have a lot to celebrate, including our largest garden harvest, the completion of an invasive plant control project in Beluga, two successful pike derbies, a new fire break surrounding Tyonek, and several new projects at TTCD.
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!
