August 26th, 2013

Portrait of Hal Herring by Earl Harper, Earl Harper Studios.)

Award-winning journalist, author and editor Hal Herring recently published a five-part series in Field & Stream about his journey to Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Herring spent five days fishing in the Tongass, a 17-million-acre temperate rainforest that is having a record salmon season this summer.  As of today, more than 252-million salmon have been landed in Alaska so far this season, with more than 92-million harvested in Southeast Alaska alone. No wonder Herring calls the Tongass a “salmon forest” and advocates for watershed-scale conservation of the forest’s most valuable salmon habitat.

Herring joined several other writers, bloggers and photographers on a tour of the Tongass sponsored by Trout Unlimited, Fishpond, TenkaraUSA, and RIO Products

Check out the links below to Herring’s series.

Part One.

Part Two.

Part Three.

Part Four.

Part Five.

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