Jay and Meredith Trainor talk about the efforts to save the Tongass National Forest from excessive logging in the Alaska Panhandle. She is Executive Director of the South East Alaska Conservation Council in Portage, Alaska. Before working for the Council, she spent six years working on boreal forest conservation in Canada for the International Boreal Conservation Campaign. At the IBCC, Meredith worked with stakeholders from the Forest Products Association of Canada on the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, joining an effort to increase the amount of Canadian boreal forest under permanent, legislated protection. Meredith holds a master’s of Environmental Science in Forest Ecology and Management from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and bachelor’s degrees in Environmental Studies and Political Science from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, in Geneva, New York.