Arctic Refuge | Alaska Wilderness League

Anchorage Adventure Community Comes Together For Conservation

Emily Sullivan | February 15, 2019

Alaska Wilderness League recently co-hosted an event for the Anchorage adventure community in conjunction with some amazing partners: the American Packrafting Association, Alpacka Raft and Alaska Conservation Foundation. Read more

Interior Rushes To Advance Arctic Drilling

Rebekah Ashley | February 12, 2019

As a part of President Trump’s plan to sell leases for drilling in our nation’s largest wildlife refuge, the Department of the Interior (DOI) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a rushed draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on December 22. This came just shortly before the five-week government shutdown....

Lynn Larsen Paints A Picture Of The Arctic Refuge

League Staff | January 28, 2019

Lynn Larsen, an artist from Fairbanks, Alaska, shares her story and some of her beautiful oil paintings of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Read more

Murkowski’s Broken Promises Continue To Grow

Adam Kolton | January 8, 2019

(This piece originally appeared in The Hill.) When drilling on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was slipped into last year’s Republican tax bill, Alaska’s senior Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) promised to: “Do it right. We will take care of our lands. We will take care of our wildlife....