Ten years is forever until it flies
We’re proud and thrilled that two of our senior staff attorneys have...
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.
We’re proud and thrilled that two of our senior staff attorneys have...
I came to Trustees as a staff attorney in 2007 and recall...
Despite the global pandemic and significant civil unrest, this administration has been...
The Interior Department tried twice to make corrupt and illegal side deals...
No, the "discrimination" of oil companies is not a thing You might have...
The U.S. National Park Service and Fish and Wildlife Service announced today...
We filed two lawsuits charging Trump agencies with violating FOIA and environmental...
Using planes or helicopters to locate wolves and then land nearby to shoot...
Black brandt stop during migration to feed on the rich eelgrass beds...
Trustees for Alaska and the Sierra Club Environmental Law Program just submitted...
A historic vote moved the bipartisan House Bill 1146, the Arctic Cultural and...
The science used to justify the proposed Pebble mine lacks credibility. The...
A federal District Court decision today voids a land exchange deal between the...
[caption id="attachment_8282" align="alignright" width="368"] Photo by Carl Johnson[/caption] Once a place gets officially...
[caption id="attachment_8906" align="alignright" width="351"] Photo by Bob Waldrop.[/caption] If there’s one thing we...
[caption id="attachment_8890" align="alignright" width="342"] Trustees' legal director Valerie Brown and senior attorney...
It sounds sketchy because it is—using spotlights in dens to kill grizzly...
Help us fight for the future of Alaska salmon Bristol Bay salmon...
Trustees and its clients will play the legal waiting game this fall...
We don't need Twitter to tell us that the Trump administration couldn't...
[caption id="attachment_8699" align="alignright" width="338"] Alaskans can vote on salmon habitat protection this...
[caption id="attachment_8668" align="alignright" width="329"] Sea otters in Izembek Lagoon. Photo by USFWS,...
Two Alaskans made the news last month after lying about unlawfully killing...
[caption id="attachment_7515" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo by USFWS[/caption] An Alaska Supreme Court decision this...
Last month, Trustees submitted comments on the proposed Pebble mine on behalf...
Our legal director Valerie Brown spent time sharing the wild with bears...
Our legal director Valerie Brown just spent some time sharing the wild...
[caption id="attachment_5005" align="alignright" width="378"] Waterway in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. USFWS...