Fire in the hole: the Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it

After a historic land buyback by the US Forest Service, Tlingit crew members are demolishing culverts to restore streams, salmon runs and cultural history deep in the Tongass national forest

The morning begins with a sense of anticipation - the calm before 1,200lbs of explosives detonate a stream culvert buried 10ft in Alaska's Tongass national forest.

Jamie Daniels, 53, and his crew of Tlingit forestry workers take cover in a glade of alders.