A trip with Grizzly Skins of Alaska is more than a fishing trip. It’s an opportunity to experience something important, something worth saving – a place and a way of life that’s priceless in the 21st century.
This week, the U.S. Forest Service announced it is exempting the Tongass National Forest from the Roadless Rule, and in the process removing protections for more than 9 million acres of the nation’s top salmon-producing forest.
If you’re ever going to join us for an Instagram Live session – please join us for this one. I’ll be talking with Phil, Rocky and Tia @grizzlyskinsofalaska on Instagram Live @troutunlimited this Friday October 30 at noon AKDT. I promise you’ll love it!
After a long float plane flight back to Juneau, a hurried meal and a handful of Ibuprofen, I turned in for the night with one last thought – Tomorrow. Tomorrow we’ll find the fish and all of this will be worth it.
Legacy. It’s a small word, but it emotes big energy. It means someone — or a group of someones — has left behind a lasting footprint that guides a discipline years, even decades, later
And some rivers … well, after a fashion, their names are pushed from their currents, roared from their rapids or whispered from quiet slicks
“We don’t have any more chances left. There aren’t any more Tongasses. This is an American forest, not an Alaskan forest. It belongs to every American.”
