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Sealaska Corporation Environmental Goals

 
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Conform with federal and state government standards

  • Meet the expectations created by our culture and our ancestry

  • Safeguard & nurture Corporate lands to support all future generations

  • Develop, in a wise & prudent manner, all resources to support Native people

  • Utilize these resources to generate economic benefit to the Corporation and shareholders while maintaining the highest environmental & stewardship responsibilities

  • Remain sensitive to the stewardship commitment & make it an equal priority to that of corporate profitability and include this ethic as part of our corporate culture & decision making

  • Strive to prevent or mitigate impacts through conscientious planning, monitoring, and practices to protect the environment.

  • Initiate self-policing or self-regulating programs & practices consistent with its "beyond compliance" principles

  • Environmental program should weigh optimal economic benefits against the objective of maintaining and protecting the environment

  • Strive to be recognized by the public, regulatory agencies, & our shareholders as an entity that effectively self-polices and self-regulates its activities to protect the environment

  • Administer an effective environmental management program & utilize sound resource management practices

  • All employees should expect to go beyond compliance by planning, initiating, and sustaining a top-flight environmental program designed to meet the spirit as well as the letter of the law

  • Communicate environmental principles & accomplishments throughout the organization, to our shareholders, and to the public

 

Silviculture is an important component of Sealaska's land stewardship.  Silviculture can be defined as the art of producing and tending a forest.  It includes forest practices from regeneration to logging harvest systems.  Sealaska lands have an aggressive silviculture program which includes precommercial thinning, tree planting, soil stabilization, fertilization and experimental basal pruning.  Sample plots are being used to help monitor the success of these programs.  The pictures above illustrate just some of the activities Sealaska's silviculture program entails.