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Taiya Inlet Watershed Council 
The Taiya Inlet Watershed Council is concerned with the health and vitality
of upper Taiya Inlet streams and rivers including the Skagway and Taiya Rivers,
Burro Creek, Kasidaya Creek, and Pullen Creek. Land ownership in these watersheds
is a complex mix of private property and public lands administered by the
City of Skagway and various state and federal agencies.
TIWC is based
in Skagway, a town of just over 800 permanent residents and a population
of over 2,000 during the May-September visitor season. Before the  town of
Skagway was established in the late 1890s, the area was and continues to be
a geographically important activity center for coastal Tlingit and interior
First Nations peoples.
Currently, Skagway hosts over 750,000 visitors annually; over two-thirds from cruise  ships, making it the 14th most visited tourist
port in the world. The area contains two National Historic Landmarks—the
Skagway Historic District and White Pass National Historical Landmark (1962),
and the Chilkoot Trail and Dyea Site National Historical Landmark (1978) both
commemorating the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush.
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