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Alaska Wilderness League Announces Inaugural Recipient of Storytelling Grant Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENovember 29, 2022 Contact: Aileo Weinmann | aileo@alaskawild.org Alaska Wilderness League Announces Inaugural Recipient of Storytelling Grant Award Polly Andrews to help others tell their stories via youth workshops Washington, D.C. – At a recent event, the Alaska Wilderness League community gathered together to celebrate Alaska’s wildest places and announce the inaugural recipient of…
Read MoreOPINION: Speaking up on subsistence, even in the face of an industrial juggernaut
This opinion piece was written by Seth Kantner and was originally published by Anchorage Daily News on April 29, 2022. This spring along the river, I heard from friends that construction on the proposed Ambler Industrial Road had started. Rumor said bulldozers were plowing toward our villages. This is not correct. The Biden administration proposed…
Read MoreInaugural Adam Kolton Alaska Storytelling Grant
We are pleased to share the details about our inaugural Adam Kolton Alaska Storytelling Grant as the October 19, 2022 application deadline quickly approaches. Established in memory of our late executive director, Adam Kolton, this Storytelling Grant is a merit-based, unrestricted award of $20,000 to a practicing professional storyteller of exceptional talent and ability who…
Read MoreArctic Alaska won’t solve high gas prices, but it can help the U.S. achieve its climate goals
This piece originally appeared on The Well News.
Read MoreChatting “Newtok” and climate justice with Patagonia
Join us for an extra special Geography of Hope conversation with the filmmakers behind the new film “Newtok.”
Read MoreDiscovering myself while finding true north
Molly Rettig is the author of “Finding True North,” a journey back in time to discover what Alaska was like before the gold rush, and the ensuing resource booms that reshaped Alaska forever.
Read MoreThe importance of Indigenous representation
Join us for a conversation with Princess Daazhraii Johnson, a Neets’aii Gwich’in writer, director, producer, actor and advocate.
Read MoreIPCC Report, Part II: The climate crisis is here — so now what?
Overshadowed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on February 28, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the second part of its Sixth Assessment Report.
Read MoreDr. Peter Winsor takes the helm as the League’s next executive director
On February 7, Alaska Wilderness League was pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Peter Winsor as its next executive director. And we’re happy to share that Peter is now officially on board and leading the team as we work to protect Alaska’s wild places.
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