Research and Studies

Sealaska strives to carry out the best possible land stewardship practices. We are proud to be the recipients of several state and federal grants to pursue silviculture treatments such as tree planting and precommercial tree thinning, wildlife habitat improvement activities, and alternative energies studies.

In 2006, Sealaska was awarded a grant from the USDA Forest Land Enhancement Program to help finance tree planting on our lands in the Hoonah area.

Sealaska is proud to have teamed with forest scientists from Oregon State University in 1999 to undertake a 12-year study of the benefits of various thinning intensities on:

Deer browse and understory plant vegetation
Tree form and growth

For more information, view the report.

Sealaska, in cooperation with wildlife biologists from the University of Washington and the USDA Forest Sciences Laboratory, developed of a new way to measure how many deer the forest can support. This ‘deer model’ is based on the nutrition requirements of deer and the understory vegetation capacity to provide this nutrition. Timber harvest and precommercial thinning greatly increase deer browse understory.

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