RDC Board visits Ketchikan & Prince of Wales Island

RDC would like to thank the sponsors of its 2012 community outreach trip to Ketchikan and Prince of Wales Island, including Alaska Airlines, Alaska Miners Association, Alaska Ship & Drydock, Inc., Aleut Corporation, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Anglo American US LLC, CH2M HILL, ExxonMobil, Flint Hills Resources, Heatherdale Resources Ltd (Niblack Project), Holland America Line, Koniag, Inc., Lynden, Sealaska Corporation, Statoil, TEMSCO Helicopters/North Star Terminal, and Usibelli Coal Mine. Pictured above are board members, staff, and guests in a Sealaska riparian buffer zone. [Pictured below], board members are briefed by John Rowan on the totem carving tradition in Southeast Alaska Native cultures. Sealaska donates logs and other support for cultural projects in local communities, including canoes, totems, and house posts.

A group of RDC board members and guests pose at the
entrance of the portal at the Niblack mineral prospect.

Workers can salmon at the Trident Seafood plant.

The Alaska Ship & Drydock facility in Ketchikan builds
and repairs fishing vessels, ferries, and more.

A logger prepares to fall a large spruce near Klawock. Sealaska is intensively engaged in reforestation practices to ensure productive forest lands for trees, wildlife, biodiversity, and subsistence foods.

Viking Lumber Company is the largest (medium-size)
sawmill remaining in the Tongass National Forest.

A group of board members, staff and guests pose on the upper deck of Holland America’s Oosterdam. RDC toured the ship’s environmental and recycling systems.

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