In the Tongass, salmon need the forest and the forest needs the salmon. To help keep this relationship in balance, Rob Bosworth, a Conservancy fish biologist, has a goal: restore 500 miles of salmon streams. More

The sockeye salmon fishing season in Alaska is over... read Conservancy staffer Dustin Solberg's final thoughts from his stint working on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska's Bristol Bay, aka the "'center of the wild salmon universe." More

All work and no sleep makes for... your typical salmon fisherman in Bristol Bay. Our staffer Dustin Solberg continues pulling the nets for a commercial salmon fishing boat in Alaska. More

The commercial sockeye salmon fishing season in Alaska has begun! Our staffer Dustin Solberg reports from a one-month stint on a commercial salmon fishing boat in Bristol Bay. More

Midnight fishing alongside beluga whales...our blogger Dustin Solberg reports on what it's like to spend a month on a commercial salmon fishing boat in Bristol Bay, Alaska. More

What's it like to fish in the best place on Earth for wild salmon? Our blogger Dustin Solberg begins a month-long stint on a commercial salmon fishing boat in Bristol Bay, Alaska. More

Spring comes in signs -- and for the Conservancy's Dustin Solberg, that means migrating birds. So which bird means spring to you? More

Take a journey with the Conservancy's Dustin Solberg to Alaska's Bristol Bay, where a healthy ecosystem brims with wild salmon and rich tradition. More

Dustin Solberg visits the restored Globe Theatre in London...and wonders if restoring nature can ever be as simple. More

This post comes to us from biologist Steve MacLean, director of The Nature Conservancy’s Bering Sea Program in Alaska. Last summer, when biologists walked along the rocky cliffs on Rat Island, one of more than 2,000 islands in Alaska’s Aleutian chain, they encountered an eerie silence. This place should have been a cacophonous and lively [...] More