In the Tongass, TU is championing an effort to conserve the 77 most high-value salmon and trout watersheds that remain open to development activities that can harm fish.

On the Susitna River, TU has partnered with the Susitna River Coalition to defeat the Susitna-Watana Dam proposal, which would threaten the Susitna's king salmon run and the fishing traditions of thousands of angers.

In Bristol Bay, TU is involved in a national campaign to protect this region, home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon run, from the massive Pebble mine proposal.

Through sound science, strong grassroots outreach and advocacy, and hands-on involvement in conservation, Trout Unlimited fights to protect some of the most pristine and prized rivers on the planet, focusing on Bristol Bay in southwestern Alaska, the Susitna River in Southcentral and the waters of the Tongass National Forest in Southeast.

Although Alaska has some of the most abundant and healthiest salmon and trout, these fish face a variety of major threats. We work to preserve, protect and restore wild salmon and trout populations throughout the country’s largest, wildest and most fish-rich state.

Trout Unlimited’s Alaska Program collaborates closely with commercial fishermen, anglers, tribes, chefs, and many others who care about trout and salmon. It is an angler’s paradise… a place like no other. And only here can an angler pursue all five Pacific salmon, as well as rainbow trout, steelhead, coastal cutthroat trout, Dolly Varden, Arctic char and Arctic grayling. Only in Alaska can one cast a fly beneath the canopy of the healthiest temperate rainforest left on the planet. Here, anglers share the rivers and streams with mighty brown bears.

It’s home to the largest salmon runs left in America and, in some cases, the world. Alaska is, simply put, the best of what’s left. For generations, it’s been known as “the last frontier.” For anglers, it might be better known as the Salmon Frontier.

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