DEFEND. YAKUTAT.
Clear cut logging threatens sacred and significant cultural sites across Yakutat AND THE FORELANDS.
Our mission is to bring visibility and transparency to industry on Shareholder Land.
Ugly, brutal, and unforgiving.
Clear cut logging threatens the Tlingit way of life, historic sites, and sacred places across Yakutat and the Forelands. Unsustainable and reprehensible clear-cut logging practices have caused immeasurable harm to the forest and Tlingit culture. Our goal is to end the secrecy that has surrounded it.
in a headlock.
Tlingit tribal members and shareholders have long tried to obtain information from the local village corporation, Yak-tat Kwaan, and Yak Timber, their subsidiary and logging operator. Still to date, little has come from inquiries.
With a new Yak-Tat Kwaan board voted in September 2023, there is hope that this will change.
why aren’t they listening?
Logging occurred on historic places and sacred sites across Yakutat from 2019-2023. Many known places of cultural use and gathering since time immemorial was catastrophically destroyed.
We believe that culture is contingent on the land. The old Yak-Tat Kwaan board and Yak-Timber believed that culture is contingent on money.
We were successful in 2022 preventing yak-timber from logging khantaak island, pictured here
“PRIVATE LAND”
WITHOUT FEDERAL PROTECTION, THE ANKAU (FOREGROUND) AND KHANTAAK ISLAND/SURROUNDING ISLANDS (BACKGROUND) ARE ABLE TO BE LOGGED as they are held by the yak-tat kwaan. THIS ENTIRE ARCHIPELAGO IS HOME TO DOZENS OF VILLAGE SITES AND SITES OF CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE.
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