“I came to Alaska when I was 35 or 36, with an ex-husband who was a fisherman when the fisheries collapsed in New England. I was very immersed in fishing culture back there in New England. When I arrived I got a job at KMXT to produce their Alaska Fisheries report. It was an overview of fishing around the state.”

"If you walk into the Tongass for the first time, you might think it all looks the same. But then, you begin to learn more. It’s a magical and wonderful place. It’s not untouched, but parts of it still have a completely intact ecosystem with ancient old growth trees. It’s a privilege to live on the traditional land of the Tlingit people.”

"I’m a lifelong fisherman. My parents raised me on a fishing boat since I was 17 days old, commercial fishing for salmon and halibut.”

“The whole idea of the salmon forest being connected is that the nitrogen that salmon accumulate in the middle of the Pacific Ocean ultimately ends up in the canopy in these ancient forests, and spiders in the canopy still have that nitrogen from the middle of the ocean, it’s sort of, its eliminated the idea of the land and the sea being two separate things. I had no concept of this at all before.”