Alaska Wilderness League staff and supporters live in every corner of this country. Whenever concerned citizens voice their passion for Alaska’s wilderness in the media, we catalog it. Below you'll find Alaska in the news, as well as the most recent press releases from the League.
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Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest exempted from national "roadless rule"
(SitNews, 10/30/20)
Protection of America’s Largest National Forest Overturned, Will Open to Logging, Road Construction
(Sunset Magazine, 10/30/20)
Trump's Interior Department Pressures Employees to Approve Seismic Testing in ANWR
(InsideClimate News, 10/29/20)
Trump Opens 9.3 Million Acres of Tongass National Forest to Logging
(Men's Health, 10/29/20)
Trump administration strips protection from US’s largest forest
(Al Jazeera, 10/29/20)
Trump administration will nix roadless limitations for Tongass forest
(Fairbanks News-Miner, 10/28/20)
Trump Guts Protections For Alaska Forest That His Hero Theodore Roosevelt Established
(HuffPost, 10/28/20)
Government approves Alaska Petroleum Reserve Willow project
(The Associated Press, 10/28/20)
ConocoPhillips Wins Key Approval for Willow Project in Alaska
(Natural Gas Intelligence, 10/28/20)
BLM releases plan for ANWR seismic exploration
(Alaska Journal of Commerce, 10/28/20)
Trump to gut protections in Alaska’s Tongass forest, the ‘lungs of the country’
(The Guardian, 10/28/20)
Trump admin slashes roadless-rule restrictions
(E&E News, 10/28/20)
BLM approves massive Arctic oil and gas project
(E&E News, 10/28/20)
Trump administration approves Conoco’s Willow project in National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
(Alaska Public Media, 10/27/20)
Trump administration approves ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil project in National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
(Anchorage Daily News, 10/27/20)
The largest temperate rainforest on Earth, Alaska's Tongass, cannot be sacrificed
(The Hill, 10/27/20)
5 Environmental Boondoggles Trump Will Keep Pushing If He Wins
(Sierra Magazine, 10/26/20)
Legal victory in POW forest logging plan goes unchallenged by Department of Justice
(SitNews, 10/26/20)
Republicans want to open pristine Alaska wilderness to logging. It's a tragedy
(The Guardian, 10/25/20)
Trump administration releases new Arctic refuge seismic proposal submitted by Native village corporation
(Anchorage Daily News, 10/23/20)
Threat to the Tongass National Forest with Andy Moderow (Podcast Ep: 19)
(This American Land Podcast, 10/21/20)
Adam Kolton: Preserving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Podcast Ep: 5)
(For the Revolution Podcast, 10/20/20)
This Way of Life is our Birthright
(Geosphere, 10/20/20)
‘Dangerous’: National Climate Report Held Back By Trump
(The National Memo, 10/18/20)
An Indigenous Vision for Our Collective Future: Becoming Earth’s Stewards Again
(Nonprofit Quarterly, 10/14/20)
Locked in tight race, GOP Senator Dan Sullivan caught in Pebble Mine Scandal
(The Intercept, 10/12/20)
Can Canada stymie the Trump administration’s plan to open an Arctic refuge to oil drilling?
(The Narwhal/The Toronto Star, 10/9/20)
Trump administration plan would open Tongass to logging
(The Cordova Times, 10/7/20)
Trump administration eyes speedy permit for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge seismic tests
(Politico, 10/4/20)
Long-delayed Trump administration study finds that climate change threatens polar bears
(The Washington Post, 10/2/20)
Trump Administration Set To Lift Protections On Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
(Forbes, 9/27/20)
Gwich’in Nation launches lawsuit in effort to stop Arctic Refuge oil drilling
(APTN News, 9/26/20)
The Trump Administration Moves to Open Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to Logging
(Inside Climate News, 9/26/20)
Rule recommendation met with both praise and distrust
(Juneau Empire, 9/26/20)
Trump Administration Moves To Allow Logging In Alaska's Tongass National Forest
(NPR, 9/25/20)
Trump administration advances plan to cut protections for largest national forest
(The Guardian, 9/24/20)
Trump Administration to Announce Plan to Open Tongass Forest to Logging
(The New York Times, 9/24/20)
Shell Plans to Resume Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration in Arctic Alaska
(High North News, 9/23/20)
Quannah Chasinghorse Is Fighting to Save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
(Teen Vogue, 9/22/20)
Oil Titans Mulling Arctic Drilling Targeted by Activist Groups
(Bloomberg, 9/17/20)
Gwich’in Voices Speak Out Against Oil Drilling in Alaska
(YES! Magazine, 9/7/20)
New rules for killing bears, wolves in national preserves challenged
(The Cordova Times, 9/1/20)
Trump administration sued over Arctic Refuge
(The Cordova Times, 8/31/20)
Interior Department sued over revised NPR-A plan
(Alaska Journal of Commerce, 8/28/20)
Environmental groups challenge rule change on controversial hunting practices in National Preserves
(Alaska Public Media, 8/27/20)
CPAWS joins litigation against drilling plan
(The Associated Press, 8/26/20)
Greens sue over Alaska drilling plan
(Politico Morning Energy, 8/26/20)
Greens ask court to halt predator kills in Alaska preserves
(E&E News, 8/26/20)
Environmental groups sue to block drilling in National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
(The Associated Press, 8/26/20)
2 lawsuits challenge Trump’s drilling plan in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
(The Associated Press, 8/25/20)