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Brenda Schwartz-Yeager

Brenda Schwartz-Yeager

Brenda Schwartz-Yeager is a marine artist, Wrangell resident and Stikine River business owner and boat captain.

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A view of the Stikine River and its delta. (Photo by Mary Catharine Martin)

It’s time for U.S. government to hold Canada accountable for transboundary river impacts in Alaska

By: - August 16, 2023

Two years ago this fall, I testified at a Wrangell Borough Assembly meeting in support of yet another resolution calling on the U.S. federal government to be firm with British Columbia and Canada in protecting the Stikine River, as well as the Taku and Unuk rivers. These transboundary rivers, the lifeblood of Southeast Alaska, are […]