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HIA Environmental : A Year in Review
A Happy Holidays from HIA Environmental to you and yours! We are excited to share the accomplishments of 2017 with you and get you thinking about 2018 – it’s going to be a busy year! […]
Year: 2017
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Looking For Your Input : Why Do You Value Your Land?
The Hoonah Native Forest Partnership is writing the land management plan for our lands. We are asking you to fill out this brief questionnaire about why resources are important to you. It’s a great activity […]
Environmental Committee Blog
December Environmental Committee Meeting
December 2017 the Hoonah Stewardship council came together in effort to make progress on the Hoonah Environmental Plan. We where joined by Dennis which was extremely helpful and gave us a lot of insight on […]
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Work in Hoonah as a Home Energy Leader!
Did you know that in Hoonah switching one incandescent light bulb to LED can save you $35 per light bulb per year (based on running it 8 hours per day)? Even with only 5 bulbs […]
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Learn about Louisiana from Hoonah’s New Americorp VISTA Sean Williams
Hoonah Indian Association is excited to bring on Sean Williams through the Americorp VISTA program. He hails from Tennessee originally and is receiving a Master of Science in Environmental Science from Louisiana State University’s College of […]
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Hoonah Native Forest Partnership Holds Dual Meetings to Plan For Future
The Hoonah Native Forest Partnership (HNFP) has completed its last season of data collection with our locally trained work crews and is now full-steam ahead with writing a watershed management plan. On November 6th-7th, 2017 […]
Community
ATCEM 2017
Ian and I are Back! We attended Alaska Tribal Conference on Environmental Management (ATCEM) 2017 in Anchorage. We co presented on our air quality study that we did last winter; we also attended several seminars […]
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Environmental Committee Blog
Environmental Committee Begins Environmental Plan
October 26th, 27th 2017 Another amazing Environmental Committee meeting in the history books. I would like to thank Oxcenia from Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium for taking the time to come to Hoonah and help […]
Results
In Home Air Quality Final report
In the winter of 2017, Hoonah Indian Association undertook an indoor air quality study of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and carbon monoxide (CO). This study sought to quantify PM2.5 and CO in households, and to […]