Posts by Corey Himrod
Adam Kolton discusses Arctic Refuge oil on Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Adam Kolton, Alaska Wilderness League’s executive director, recently joined Pete Dominick on his Stand Up! podcast to discuss the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the current push to open this wilderness to oil and gas development.
Read MoreAdam Kolton joins Hannah Blake to talk Arctic Refuge
Adam Kolton, executive director of Alaska Wilderness League, joins Hannah Blake to discuss the bounty of beauty and life that is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Read MoreThe League’s Andy Moderow talks Tongass
Gary Strieker of This American Land spoke with our own Alaska director, Andy Moderow, about the Tongass and the Trump administration’s push to remove Roadless Rule protections.
Read MoreAcidification and the Arctic Ocean
One of the more serious side effects of climate change is ocean acidification, which will change our oceans forever if action is not taken — and soon.
Read MoreIn the Arctic, Dan Sullivan blowing smoke to score political points
Climate change is reshaping our planet and the economies it supports, and smart investors are staying away from risky Arctic drilling. [Cover photo: Caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain. (Peter Mather/www.PeterMather.com)]
Read MoreClimate change, oil drilling threaten Alaska’s polar bears
(This piece originally appeared in EcoWatch. Cover photo: A polar bear family relaxes on the Arctic coast — Jennie Gosché)
Read MoreA bipartisan need for conservation
(This essay was provided to the League for reprint by Theodore Roosevelt IV, great-grandson of President Teddy Roosevelt. The essay was written in the first quarter of 2020 and appeared in The Explorers Log, Volume 52.1, Winter 2020. Cover image: Lincoln Else.)
Read MoreWestern Arctic land use plan sacrifices wildlife protections
[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 land-use plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska in Alaska’s Western…
Read MoreSummer Solstice in the Arctic Refuge
By Randy May As we stood on the gravel landing strip in Arctic Village, Alaska, my two new friends and I watched as the tiny tundra plane descended from the Brooks Range, executed a steep hairpin turn, and landed using only the first 100 yards of the strip.
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