To kick off 2022, the Southeast Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership will begin to review and update it’s strategic action plan. Updates on the revision process will be shared on this page. You can find our current action plan here: SEAKFHP Strategic Action Plan | Southeast Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership.

If you would like to be a part of the planning effort reach out to our coordinator at: coordinator@sealaskafishhabitat.org.

One part of our review process will be to explore other aquatic conservation planning efforts and include relevant information in our updated plan. Here is a running list of plans we will be reviewing (this list will be continually updated over the review period):

America’s Conservation Enhancement Act – signed into law in October of 2020, this Act codifies the National Fish Habitat Action Plan and lays out expectations for Fish Habitat Partnerships (which SEAKFHP is one of 20 currently recognized by the NFHP Board). Learn more here:

Conservationists Praise Congress for Passing the America’s Conservation Enhancement Act (S.3051) | National Fish Habitat Partnership

S.3051 – 116th Congress (2019-2020): America’s Conservation Enhancement Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

State of Alaska wildlife action plans and other stock status or conservation plans:

2015 Alaska Wildlife Action Plan

Special Publication No RC6 Special report to the Alaska Board of Fisheries Dec 2021 DRAFT–Northern Southeast Alaska King Salmon
Stock Status and Action Plan, 2021 (alaska.gov)

USDA Southeast Alaska Sustainability Strategy:

USDA Announces Southeast Alaska Sustainability Strategy, Initiates Action to Work with Tribes, Partners and Communities | USDA

Tongass National Forest Conservation Plans:

Tongass National Forest – Land & Resources Management Plan (usda.gov)

The Coastal Forests and Mountains
Ecoregion of Southeastern Alaska
and the Tongass National Forest
A CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT AND RESOURCE SYNTHESIS
MARCH 2007

Tongass-77-a-closer-look-2_3_15.pdf (americansalmonforest.org)

Community Watershed Action Plans:

HNFP Publishes Public Watershed Management Plan! – HIA Environmental (hia-env.org)

Water Quality Assessments:

ADEC DRAFT 2022 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report (Integrated Report)

Takshanuk Watershed Council (TWC) recently published a report on historic aquatic habitat projects in the Haines area.  You can find the report here: Haines Habitat Project Inventory

The goal of this project is to:
1. Develop a habitat improvement project inventory
2. Evaluate a subset of the projects to inform future habitat improvement practices
3. Identify projects that require additional habitat improvement actions 

This report is intended to be a “living” document. Over time, existing projects will be re-evaluated, and new projects will be assessed and added to the inventory.

This project originated as an inquiry from members of the Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee, who were looking for a resource to inform their assessments of the ongoing Haines Highway reconstruction and the associated habitat mitigation projects.  Funding was provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.  Special thanks to Neil Stichert, now with the US Forest Service, for helping to get things off the ground; and also to Jenn Hamblen, who now works for USGS, for doing the initial “field work” gathering together hundreds of old fish habitat permits from the ADF&G Habitat Section offices in Juneau.
Any comments on this report, or suggestions for future efforts, are always welcome. 

Contact for more details:
Derek Poinsette, Executive Director Takshanuk Watershed Council 907-766-3542 derek@takshanuk.org

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.