conservation

Since 2019, Cook Inletkeeper has hosted “Shark Tank”-style events to solicit and help the community pick small-scale projects to back. The latest project's goal is to protect local salmon habitat.

A Homer-based nonprofit that works with landowners and state agencies to protect land on the Kenai Peninsula recently completed mitigation efforts on the Cooper Landing Bypass project. The multi-step mitigation plan identified, assessed and protected areas of the Kenai River watershed that would otherwise be impacted by highway construction.

For more than 20 years, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has teamed with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to promote health fish habitat through a…