WILD ALASKA BLOG

House spending bill includes wins for Alaska conservation

Kaden McArthur | July 31, 2020

Last week saw some huge conservation wins as the U.S. House of Representatives passed its 2021 Interior and Environment spending bill.

Trump hates the National Environmental Policy Act

Andy Moderow | July 29, 2020

[This piece originally appeared in The Hill. Cover photo: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Peter Mather/www.PeterMather.com)] As Alaskans, we care about our environment, because we know the lands and waters provide us with places to harvest food, to fish, or simply...

An adventure dream achieved during a global crisis

Emily Sullivan | July 21, 2020

We left Anchorage on March 14 chasing a dream of many years: setting out on skis from McCarthy, Alaska, to traverse hundreds of miles of wilderness in the Wrangell Mountains. We’d spent months preparing for the trip and years building...

Western Arctic land use plan sacrifices wildlife protections

League Staff | July 14, 2020

[This piece originally appeared in the Anchorage Daily News. Cover photo: Caribou calves in the Utukok River Uplands, National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. (Patrick Endres)] By Pat Pourchot The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently released its final...

Alaska Wilderness League galvanizes support to secure vital policies that protect and defend America’s last great wild public lands and waters. Visit the website of our sister organization Alaska Wilderness Action to learn more about its legislative and political advocacy to protect Alaska’s wild places.

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