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Prince William Sound Stories

Project Date: 2009 to present
Project Manager: Tanya Iden, Chris Beck
Client: U.S. Forest Service
Location: Prince William Sound

Project Description

Agnew::Beck is assisting the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and their partner Alaska Geographic conduct public participation and outreach process required the Prince William Sound Stories project.

The project seeks to help a broad and diverse audience conserve, enjoy and understand the Sound. Agnew::Beck is working primarily to organize and facilitate a series of community work sessions among communities, agencies and organizations who know the Sound and/or have a role in its past and future. Community meetings were held in five Prince William Sound (PWS) communities, and in Anchorage, last spring to kick-off the Stories project and gather story ideas. The project team returns to PWS communities in Spring and Summer 2010 to share the DRAFT website developed by Alaska Geographic.

The first meeting is schedules for Cordova.

  • Cordova - April 15, 2010. 6:30-8:30 pm in the USFS Courtroom.

Check back for meeting details for Valdez, Whittier, Chenega and Tatitlek.

Community Engagement
Agnew::Beck and project partners are working with PWS communities to:

  • Document and share stories about the Sound, and the voices of those who live in and use the area.
  • Increase public understanding about the Sound's resources, including those still recovering from the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
  • Help conserve the natural and cultural resources of the Sound and contribute to the continued restoration of those still recovering from the oil spill.
  • Promote sustainable economic health.
  • Connect people to the Sound and foster appropriate recreation and tourism activities.

Understanding of the Project
Project partners initiated the project with the understanding that:

  • PWS is a particularly wonderful place; well-loved for good reason.
  • Tourism and recreation activity continue to grow in PWS; the impacts of this growth are positive and negative.
  • PWS has been studied as intensively as any marine region in the world, in part due to the oil spill, yet public knowledge of the results of this research is limited.
  • Collaboration is required to manage and support the continued recovery of the Sound's resources.

If you would like more information about this project please contact
Tanya Iden.
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