Yay! We partnered with the Homer Folk School and Stowaway Cafe to bring you a summer series of workshops that will take your love for salmon to a whole new level! From dialing in your skills with a fillet knife, or recipes of all kinds, to a detailed exploration of salmon science and getting crafty with home-made salmon leather. Learn more and register: homerfolkschool.org
Inletkeeper’s Watershed Days will invite you to explore our relationship to the watershed firsthand: walking streambanks, wading in waters, and learning in a way that connects you directly to the lands and rivers’ rhythms, encouraging us to reflect on how our daily choices ripple downstream.
I’ve waded in what I consider the most beautiful waters in the world here in the Cook Inlet watershed. I’ve chased every species of salmon that call these special waters home. However, after teaming up with the Kenai Watershed Forum (KWF) for Salmon Habitat Mapping field days—a program designed to engage volunteers in documenting local, unmapped salmon habitats as part of Inletkeeper’s Local Solutions series—I can now say that fish also live in unexpected places.
These solutions require you and your neighbors who live here, love this place, and depend on a healthy watershed to help shape them.
Backyard Salmonscapes aspires to deepen our roots in the watershed and to stand up for the rivers and salmon that shape our lives. These initiatives offer tangible ways for each of us to carry forward that responsibility, through local advocacy and collective action across the Kenai Peninsula.