A detonation of 1,200lbs of explosives in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest removes a buried culvert. Tlingit forestry workers, along with the US Forest Service, prepare and execute the controlled explosion. The operation occurs in Cube Cove, part of the Kootznoowoo wilderness, sacred to the Tlingit people who have inhabited the area for over 10,000 years. The removal of the culvert is part of efforts to restore the land, which holds spiritual significance and traditional subsistence practices for the Tlingit community.
The morning begins with a sense of anticipation the calm before 1,200lbs of explosives detonate a stream culvert buried 10ft in Alaska's Tongass national forest.
Workers slide a sled built of spruce saplings loaded with explosives into a metal culvert left by loggers in the 1980s and 90s.
The Tlingit have long considered Admiralty Island, or Kootznoowoo, as sacred ground a place of spiritual significance, ancestral knowledge and connection to a traditional subsistence lifestyle.
The area where the group works is called Cube Cove, a 22,000-acre addition to the 1m-acre Kootznoowoo wilderness on Admiralty Island.
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