by Tele | Jan 1, 2012 | Alaska, Commercial Fishing, F/V Nerka
Happy New Year, sweeties! Here’s to 2012 including blue skies, festive seas, and joyful companions. (Might turn down/mute the volume if you’re in public; we were rocking out this lovely July afternoon and I’m not tech-savvy enough to edit...
by Tele | Dec 31, 2011 | Commercial Fishing, Culture
Life as a fisherman has skewed my relationship with time. Some folks live off the grid; we live off the calendar. Twenty-four years of following Southeast Alaskan fisheries has resulted in a seasonal dissonance that is never more evident...
by Tele | Dec 14, 2011 | Alaska, Environment, Sustainability
Friends of salmon and wild places: have you written your letter for the Tongass National Forest yet? As discussed in Protecting the Tongass, Part 1, the U.S. Forest Service’s budget for the Tongass has long been skewed. Timber/road...
by Tele | Dec 9, 2011 | Alaska, Commercial Fishing, Environment, Sustainability
This is one of my favorite places in the world: This photo was taken in Sitka, but could be almost anywhere in Southeast Alaska. The Tongass National Forest blankets most of our region, a crazy quilt of western red cedar, Sitka spruce, and...
by Tele | Dec 2, 2011 | Culture, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
As much (and as loudly) as I grieve our autumn migration, leaving our Sitka family for the winter, it doesn’t take long before I remember that this transient lifestyle brings the best of several worlds into my life. Our winter-life offers...
