Afognak Island Innovative Silvopastoral & Subsistence Management Project

 Forest management strategies can and do affect subsistence wildlife species such as deer and Roosevelt elk in Alaska’s coastal forests. A need for a landscape assessment on what the forest management impacts will be and a strategy for addressing them is imminent. This project takes an integrated landscape approach on how to manage the forest resources over a cutting rotation on a sustainable basis. It evaluates the need for management modifications based on real data. It then initiates innovative practical approaches in the development of management practices that will help achieve the goal of forest and subsistence resource sustainability.