“The Trump administration’s plans for the Western Arctic will seal an unsafe future for us. The lands we rely on for hunting caribou and moose, fishing, gathering, and teaching our children would be opened up for reckless oil and gas development...
“The Roadless Rule has protected Alaska’s forests for 26 years. The rule was enacted with overwhelming support in 2001 and that support continues today. These are truly special places that feed us, filter our drinking water, where wildlife live and where...
“The real emergency is the failed public process — and the fact that AIDEA is pushing for rushed decisions, here and in other locations, that would privatize and industrialize Alaska’s public lands,” said Defend the West Su spokesperson Emily Anderson. “The only...
The lawsuit asserts that the Alaska Department of Natural Resources violated the Alaska Constitution when approving the easement by failing to protect the public interest and take a hard look at all of the project’s R on land, water, wildlife and...
President Gloria Ilsxilee Stáng Burns, Ketchikan Indian Community:?“We as Indigenous peoples have cared for these lands and waters since time immemorial. Our traditional and ecological knowledge comes from generations of living with, learning from, and caring for this place. It cannot continue to...
After a long summer of packing on the pounds, this quiet, older bear has made his name known. His win is not only a piece of his own story, but an addition to a pre-existing legacy. Backpack’s mother, 435 Holly, was...
“We have had deer sightings on the Kenai Peninsula for many years from the public and our biologists, but we haven’t had documentation that they have been able to establish a persistent population and reproduce,” said Regional Supervisor Cyndi Wardlow. “Part...
Among the wettest and most climatically stable forests worldwide, the Tongass plays a unique role as a fire shield in coastal Alaska. “The wet climate of the Tongass is a natural buffer against large wildfires more typical of drier interior and...
