The Southeast Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership (SEAKFHP, www.seakfhp.org) brings together partner groups from across the region to collaboratively protect and restore fish habitat in freshwater and coastal ecosystems across the southern panhandle of Alaska. Critical to their success is connecting key partners, sharing information, and leveraging resources needed to address conservation of the region’s aquatic habitats. They are one of twenty partnerships recognized under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHAP; www.fishhabitat.org) and, with the passage of the America’s Conservation and Enhancement Act in the fall of 2020, are helping bring new habitat conservation funding to the region.

To assist in this work, SEAKFHP has created a data repository for our partners. Aquatic information and associated landscape data sources have been collected from a variety of partners and are available in our SEAKFHP ArcGIS online account. In addition, for the more casual data user, SEAKFHP has also created a data hub to showcase data sources that can inform habitat restoration activities for the region. The hub site can be found at the Southeast Alaska Fish Habitat Data Portal. You can also explore the SEAKFHP resources tab on our website for help in navigating to these resources and for other relevant data archives.

Also, check out our SE AK Coastal Data Mapper – this interactive data application can be used with the WESPAK-SE rapid wetlands assessment tool and help navigate to data resources important for decisions on coastal areas of Southeast Alaska.

If you would like to join our user group in ArcGIS online, contact our project associate Khrystl Brouillette at khrystl@sawcak.org for more information. If you would like to learn more about the partnership reach out to the SEAKFHP Coordinator, Deborah Hart at coordinator@sealaskafishhabitat.org.