The Boat Company

Each of our vessels carries trained naturalists specializing not only in flora and fauna, but fisheries expertise as well. Science says that temperate rainforests are more biologically diverse than tropical forests. Although many of Tongass' 8 to 10 foot diameter, 1,000 year-old trees have been cut, many still remain. Our lectures stress the importance of preserving wildlife habitat, for bears, eagles, deer, wolves and a myriad of other species, and the watersheds in that habitat which are home to six species of salmon and other fishes. We inform our customers about the effects that warming trends are having on marine life (whales, sea lions, otters, shellfish, orcas, et al.) and especially the glaciers that are quickly thinning and retreating.