Browse TTCD newsletter publications dating back to 2013, the 2025 Annual Report, press coverage, and external media reports.
Sorted by publish date (newest first). Historical archives span 2013 through 2026, including the 2025 Annual Report.
Welcome to a new season of TTCD updates! We are making a few changes to our newsletter format in an effort to bring more regular, timely, and engaging news from around the district, and help keep our community connected to the work happening across Tyonek. It has been a busy summer growing and harvesting in […]
Read Full Newsletter →As summer reaches its peak, TTCD is continuing to advance conservation, food sovereignty, and youth engagement. Our Habitat Monitoring and Restoration team is transitioning from a successful month-long “pike camp” in Beluga—where more than 1,300 invasive northern pike were removed from District waters—to salmon and water temperature monitoring efforts across the region. Pictured here is Naomi Jones, Farm and Field Technician, with a juvenile salmonid. We’re also celebrating the return of the Tyonek Farmers Market, hands-on science experiences for Tyonek youth, and strengthening Tribal Conservation District partnerships across Alaska.
Read Full Newsletter →June marked the start of TTCD’s “pike camp,” where our Habitat Monitoring and Restoration team spends the entire month in Beluga eradicating invasive pike that prey on juvenile salmonids. Pictured is Bella, a staff member of our partner, the Ahtna Intertribal Resource Commission, examining a northern pike’s stomach contents. June also marked the beginning of the TTCD Youth Summer Internships, ongoing work to complete the yurt at the Tyonek Garden and a summer reading event for Tyonek youth. Plus, TTCD is hiring!
Read Full Newsletter →May felt like the true start to summer at TTCD: full of field work, community gatherings, and planting! This month, our Habitat, Monitoring, and Restoration team took their first trip to Beluga to prep for “pike camp”, we put up our two high tunnels at the Tyonek Garden, and we spent time with the Tebughna School students celebrating STEM learning, releasing the Salmon in the Classroom, and planting their indoor seedling at the Garden Blessing in Tyonek!
Read Full Newsletter →April brought a steady rhythm of activity for TTCD as programs ramped up for the season ahead. Tebughna students started indoor seedlings and took part in field trips exploring Native Alaskan culture, local ecosystems, and owls! Our Habitat Monitoring & Restoration team welcomed two new staff members and the Tyonek Garden is starting to thaw in welcome of spring (and summer)!
Read Full Newsletter →It’s officially spring, though you wouldn’t know it by the cool temperatures we have been getting for most of this month! Spring for TTCD is a flurry of activity. We are getting ready to start seedlings with the Tebughna School, hire Youth Garden Interns, deliver more salmon to more Tyonek households, and prep for our first habitat monitoring and restoration projects of the summer, including Pike Camp!
Read Full Newsletter →February is starting to bring longer days and with it, an eye toward summer planning. TTCD’s Habitat Monitoring and Restoration team is currently hiring Conservation Technicians for the coming 2026 field season to join our team in implementing annual biological field tasks. Visit ttcd.org/job-opportunities/ to learn more. Our team has also been focused on analyzing summer data, running the Tyonek Gather Market, and engaging Tebughna students in the Salmon in the Classroom program!
Read Full Newsletter →Happy New Year from TTCD! We kicked off the year by helping to organize an Alaska Tribal Conservation District Network Meeting, bringing together twenty-two TCDs from across the state for two and a half days of collaboration to chart a course for sustaining our partnerships into the future! Though we are deep in winter, our team is already starting to think about the upcoming summer season. Look out for summer job applications coming soon to our facebook page and website for field technician and garden youth positions!
Read Full Newsletter →TTCD is spending December delivering salmon caught by Tyonek fishermen to the Tyonek community, facilitating lessons at the Tebughna School on the salmon lifecycle, renewable energy, and invasive pike, and developing a habitat mapping model to identify essential Chinook habitat across the Chuitna drainage. Our team is working hard ahead of our annual holiday break, which runs from December 24 through January 1. TTCD wishes all of our newsletter readers, supporters, and Tyonek community members a happy holiday season!
Read Full Newsletter →With the first snow of the season now settled on the ground, TTCD has wrapped up its final day of field work for 2025 and is transitioning to winter activities. Lessons on ecology and conservation at the Tebughna School are being taught weekly, the hydroponics towers at the school are flourishing and being harvested from for school lunches, and the Tyonek Gather program continues to deliver locally grown Alaska food to Tyonek households – which still includes salmon caught by Tyonek fishermen!
Read Full Newsletter →Celebrating 20 years of the Tyonek Tribal Conservation District in the 2025 Annual Report!
Read Full Newsletter →Though fall is starting to settle in, our team remains in full swing! We’ve resumed weekly lessons on food systems and local ecology at the Tebughna School, while the Tyonek Garden continues to produce fresh harvests and host a vibrant weekly farmers market. Meanwhile, our Habitat Monitoring and Restoration team is wrapping up a busy field season with a strong focus on invasive species detection. Despite the rainy weather, we’re making the most of every moment and closing out the field season with purpose and energy.
Read Full Newsletter →It’s been a vibrant summer in Alaska, with sunny, warm days keeping both our plants and our field crews thriving. At the Tyonek Garden, we’re harvesting lots of veggies, and with the school year underway, we’ve resumed our work with the Tebughna School. Out in the field, we’re continuing salmon monitoring efforts and, as pictured, keeping all eyes on invasive plant control across the region.
Read Full Newsletter →Summer has officially arrived, and many of us at TTCD are trading office time for fieldwork as the season hits its stride. In July, we start to settle into the rhythm of long days and hands-on projects. With Pike Camp wrapped up and planting complete at the Tyonek Garden, we’re diving into our next round of summer work and looking ahead to the abundant harvests just around the corner.
Read Full Newsletter →June in Alaska is full of life—long days, green leaves, and wildflowers everywhere. The salmon are returning, and our team is energized for a summer full of projects, partnerships, and possibilities! Our Habitat Monitoring and Restoration team has kicked off Pike Camp to suppress invasive Northern pike, the Tyonek Garden is getting planted, and we’ve been engaging in king salmon fish sampling to help us better understand and protect the streams these fish rely on!
Read Full Newsletter →Everywhere I look these days, the world is green! It feels like I blinked and the trees exploded with new leaves. The landscape has come alive with color and excitement—and so has our team at TTCD!
Read Full Newsletter →April in Alaska is a time of transition, where winter’s grip begins to loosen and the promise of spring starts to take hold—puddles form, rivers trickle, and the sun casts a warmer glow on the landscape.
Read Full Newsletter →The days are getting longer, the sun a little brighter and, with the coming of Spring, the sounds and signs of melting are all around.
Read Full Newsletter →It’s been a while, but we are back with monthly newsletter updates on what TTCD has been up to!
Read Full Newsletter →Those who regularly put their hands in the soil understand the importance of rotating cover crops across garden beds.
Read Full Newsletter →This summer, TTCD, Native Village of Tyonek, Alaska Department of Fish & Game, Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association,
Read Full Newsletter →This summer, TTCD has the following projects planned to support healthy fish and wildlife…
Read Full Newsletter →In 2017, TTCD Garden Supervisor Gwen Chickalusion and Summer Youth Interns Leeanne Smoke, Reka Smoke…
Read Full Newsletter →Since 2015, TTCD-coordinated pike derbies in Tyonek and Beluga have removed 266 pike from local systems…
Read Full Newsletter →Autumn has arrived, and here at TTCD we’re enjoying this beautiful time of year…
Read Full Newsletter →This summer, TTCD welcomes several new employees to our team!
Read Full Newsletter →This spring, TTCD welcomes a new board member in the at-large position: Jason Brune…
Read Full Newsletter →Autumn has arrived, and here at TTCD we’re enjoying this beautiful time of the year!
Read Full Newsletter →This summer, TTCD staff are engaged in continuing ongoing projects as well as beginning new ones…
Read Full Newsletter →Spring has sprung, and TTCD is getting ready for another summer season in the District!
Read Full Newsletter →Here at TTCD we simply cannot believe that summer has already come and gone!
Read Full Newsletter →Summer is our favorite season here at TTCD, and we are enjoying spending it outdoors and in Tyonek!
Read Full Newsletter →Summer is just around the corner, and we at TTCD are looking forward to a busy season of conservation and agriculture!
Read Full Newsletter →After a great stretch of summer weather this year, it’s harvest time in the Tyonek garden…
Read Full Newsletter →Through the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service EQIP cost-share program…
Read Full Newsletter →The Native Village of Tyonek, the Tyonek Tribal Conservation District, and the Tebughna School are once again partnering…
Read Full Newsletter →In 2005, Tyonek took a historic step and became the first village in Alaska to start a Tribal Conservation District…
Read Full Newsletter →Articles, documentaries, and agency news reports highlighting TTCD initiatives.
