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Naked Truth - World class fisheries depend on clean water and Southeast Alaskans are stripping down to make that point.

“Water quality issues are becoming the biggest issues we have to deal with in Southeast. Long ago it was forestry, but as that industry has slowed down and mining and industrial tourism via cruise ships has sped up, our relatively pristine waters face more threats than they ever have,” said Malena Marvin, executive director of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council which has advocated for protecting the world’s largest temperate rain forest, the Tongass, since 197...