In Alaska
Sprinting to court to stop the Arctic Refuge sell-off
This post was written by our colleagues at Trustees for Alaska, and you can find the original post here.
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 MoreAlaska’s national forests and the Roadless Rule, explained
Together with our friends at Salmon State and Trout Unlimited-Alaska, we are proud to team up to explain how the federal Roadless Rule protects Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.
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 MoreForging connections through a “Geography of Hope”
For many of us, Alaska represents what author Wallace Stegner called “the geography of hope,” a place that captivates and inspires millions who feel our country is richer for having truly wild, vast and largely intact landscapes where herds of healthy wildlife still roam freely. Where Indigenous peoples live in deep harmony with the land…
Read MoreTrump hates the National Environmental Policy Act
[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 camp and recreate.
Read MoreAn adventure dream achieved during a global crisis
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 the skills we needed to complete it successfully. When we left, coronavirus had not yet…
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