The next meeting of the Tongass Futures Roundtable will be held in Ketchikan at the Cape Fox Lodge on September 29-30, 2010. A draft agenda for the meeting can be found here. Preceding the Roundtable meeting, there also will be a two-day session sponsored by the Unique Role of Native People in Southeast Alaska working group on September 27-28. This session will be the fourth in a series of working group meetings discussing the role of Alaska Natives in Southeast and the Tongass. The working group also will be meeting at the Cape Fox, beginning with breakfast at 8 am and running from 9 to 4 each day. Lunches will be served to participants. The public is invited and encouraged to participate in the working group meeting. A more detailed agenda for the working group will be available soon.

At the request of the Tongass Futures Roundtable, federal and state agencies, universities, and NGOs were requested to provide a synopsis of current scientific research in the Tongass that would be of interest to Roundtable members and other interested individuals. The latest version of this report (6/23/10) is available by clicking on the link below.
Science Research in Southeast Alaska Related to the Work of the Tongass Futures Roundtable

The Tongass Futures Roundtable will be meeting at the City Gymnasium in Kake on May 25-26, 2010. The meeting will begin with a field trip to an oyster operation, the Gunnuk Creek hatchery, and Sagebrush Dry, a dry bag manufacturer in Kake. There will be a community reception on the evening of May 25th. Download the agenda.

The February 2010 Tongass Futures Roundtable meeting will be held in Juneau, at Temple Sukkat Shalom (211 Cordova Street, West Juneau) beginning at 8:30 am on February 25th. The meeting will conclude at 4:30 pm on the 26th. Download the draft agenda. A Roundtable reception will be held at the Hanger Ballroom in Merchants Wharf on Thursday evening.