Alaska Brief Newsletter — April 2017
Dear Supporter: We have good reason to celebrate this month. The company that wanted...
Eighty percent of Alaska is public land. This includes national parks, forests, refuges, and wilderness areas teeming with life and healthy populations of animals like whales, wolves, caribou, moose, bears, wolverines, salmon and a diverse array of fish, birds, small mammals, and insects. Many of these species are unique to the state or have been endangered or eliminated from areas in the rest of the country.
Under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Alaska gained substantial protections for lands deemed important to the nation. Agencies regulate some of these lands for multiple uses and face intense pressure from the industry to allow resource extraction in protected areas. The demand for increased motorized access, new road construction, oil and gas exploration and extraction, large-scale industrial mining, aggressive predator control measures like brown bear baiting, and other exploitive activities threaten these lands and the flora and fauna dependent on them. Trustees keeps a watchful eye on how state and federal agencies enforce the laws and regulations meant to safeguard our public lands and resources.
Dear Supporter: We have good reason to celebrate this month. The company that wanted...
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"You can't let nature run wild: predator control in Alaska" by Peter...
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Dear Supporter: Maybe you heard the story of the senator who persisted when...
March 31, 2017 update Court allows 15 groups to have a voice in...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Feb. 8, 2017 Contacts: Pat Lavin, Alaska Representative, Defenders...
Celebrating the successes of 2016: Pebble subpoenas tossed out; Trustees argue for...
In October 2016, the Ninth Circuit heard argument in a case challenging...
In July 2016, BLM released its Eastern Interior plan, which includes protections...
Trustees for Alaska's Staff Attorney Katie Strong shares why national parks are...
The Fish and Wildlife Service adopted new sport hunting regulations for National...
Wrangell-St. Elias, is considering allowing recreational snow machining in the park, including...
CLIENT PERSPECTIVE: Jim Adams, the Alaska Region Director of the National Parks...
Brief filed in the legal battle to keep Izembek Refuge protected from...
The Supreme Court vacated the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Sturgeon v. Frost...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in Sturgeon v. Frost, a case...
Trustees for Alaska's important cases for 2016 in five programmatic areas of...
Trustees for Alaska achieved many victories for conservation during 2015 including protection...
The Alaska National Interest Lands Claims Act, signed into law December 2,...
The Alaska District Court upheld the Secretary of the Interior’s decision to...
The National Park Service adopts new sport hunting regulations in Alaska’s national...
The US Supreme Court agrees to review Yukon-Charley case upholding National Park...
A Federal judge rules to protect Izembek Wilderness from a proposed road...
For decades Trustees for Alaska has been fighting to protect the Cook...
Trustees for Alaska is working on important conservation issues and legal cases...
Looking back over the last twelve months, Trustees for Alaska and everyone...
[caption id="attachment_3596" align="alignright" width="300"] Western sandpipers feed in Kinzarof Lagoon. USFWS photo...
1974-1984: The First Decade Beirne Homestead Initiative Trustees for Alaska challenged the constitutionality of...