For wildlife like polar bears and caribou, for local communities and Alaska Natives, and for future generations, Alaska Wilderness League strives to protect Alaska's most significant wild land from oil and gas drilling and other industrial threats. Currently, Alaska Wilderness League is working to protect the 
News and Events
Everyday we upload the most recent articles (and even blogs!) about Alaska and its environment. Some of the articles are more focused on Alaska than others, but all offer some perspective on the wilderness issues that we care about.
Keep coming back to find the latest news!
Featured Opinion Articles
- Caroline Cannon: Study before drilling seas - Fairbanks News-Miner (May 13, 2009)
- Craig Culp: The stain that keeps on giving - Alaska Dispatch (March 25, 2009)
- David Torney: Delegation Should Protect ANWR - Albuquerque Journal (March 24, 2009)
- Editorial: Lessons of the Exxon Valdez - The New York Times (March 23, 2009)
- Liz VanDenzen: Exxon-Valdez: Environmental threat remains after 20 years - Santa Fe New Mexican (March 21, 2009)
- Howard Bess: Sacred Place not worth the oil underneath it - Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman (March 19, 2009)
- Heather Allmendinger: Preserve wild places - Sioux Falls Argus Leader (March 19, 2009)
- Tom Keating: Protecting the Alaskan wilderness vital to nation - Portsmouth Herald (March 19, 2009)
- Kelly Morgan: Preserve arctic wilderness - WCFCourier, Waterloo, Iowa (March 18, 2009)
- Liz VanDenzen: Bi-national effort - Santa Fe New Mexican (March 2, 2009)
- Lois Norrgard: Hope from Interior - St. Paul Pioneer Times (February 16, 2009) Read More »
Featured Blog: Ground Truth Trekking Across Alaska
Keep coming back to read the about the adventures of our friends Erin McKittrick and Bretwood Higman as they journey through Alaskan lands at the heart of controversy and share on-the-ground information, photos, and stories with the public.Alaska Environmental News
- Sheep Shrinking Each Generation Amid Global Warming - Bloomberg
- Geoengineering help global warming but not ocean acidification? - Examiner.com
- Palin's resignation catches Alaska lawmakers, delegation by surprise - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- Trans Alaska oil shipping below average rates - Reuters India
- University of Alaska seeks rewrite of land-grant bill (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
- Ocean Watch sailboat to visit Juneau in first Alaska stop (Juneau Empire)
- Senate panel OKs expanded oil and gas leasing in eastern gulf (New York Times)
- Scientists Make Breakthrough In Assessing Marine Phytoplankton Health (US News & World Report)
- Gwich?in and Alaska Natives create human aerial message (Indian Country Today)
- Socialized medicine could lead to rationing (Great Falls Tribune)
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge News
- Got 60? Who Cares? - Washington Examiner
- His Voice: Pete's unfinished work with Republicans - Tracy Press
- Time to stop rising gas prices before its too late - Vineland Daily Journal
- Fairbanks residents shocked, angered by Palin's resignation ... - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- Alaskan Palin vists Seward's N.Y. home (UPI)
- Schwarzenegger considers oil drilling off coast (San Francisco Chronicle)
- 'I'm a little bit of a nerd' (Guardian Unlimited)
- Offshore rich with oil potential (Anchorage Daily News)
National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska News
- Schaadt to Represent Audubon Society - Gant Daily
- Developing Climate Variables - Kansas City Star
- Palin's Pipeline: Clean Energy for the Lower 48 or Power for the ... - SolveClimate
- Senate energy bill's key elements go beyond eastern gulf - PennEnergy
- Natural gas in Arctic mostly Russian, new study says (Anchorage Daily News)
- Olympia makes 'Best Cities (South Sound Business Examiner)
- International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. Receives Proceeds of $23,114,288 from Warrant/Broker Option Exercises (Marketwire)
- Blog Watch: counter strikes (South Sound Business Examiner)
Offshore Alaska News
- Hayes takes break in historic Greenland quest - GulfNews
- Arctic frostiness thawing: Russian diplomat - Vancouver Sun
- Saving the seas (BBC News)
- Billion-tonne iceberg could be Arctic shipping hazard (Montreal Gazette)
- Group offers guidance to state's shoreline managers - Hilton Head Island Packet
- Shell Oil Proposes New Arctic Ocean Drilling Plan - Common Dreams (press release)
- Feds open comment on Arctic fisheries proposal (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
- NWT communities call on Alberta to halt oilsands over water pollution fears (Canadian Business)
- Shell formally shelves Beaufort exploration plan - Vancouver Sun
- Partial walrus estimate alarms conservation group - The Associated Press
- Still Digging Up Exxon Valdez Oil, 20 Years Later (Time Magazine)
- Trip Van Noppen: An Arctic Agenda for Secretary Salazar (The Huffington Post)
Alaska Rainforest News
- Tongass Fjords Released For FSX - FlightSim.com (press release)
- Communities depend on timber program outcome - Capital City Weekly
- Sarah Palin raising money . . . sarahpac appeals for funds - Examiner.com
- Sarah Palin: worse than Bush on wildlife and environment - Examiner.com
- Court OKs dumping gold mine waste in lake - The Associated Press
- Schaadt to Represent Audubon Society - Gant Daily
- Juneau Assembly OKs land donation - KTUU
- Forest Service creates Alaska experimental forest - KTUU
- Height of adventure's only a zipline away in Alaska - Fort Worth Star Telegram
- Forest Service returns remains to Tlingit - News from Indian Country
- Obama Orders One-Year Moratorium on Road-Building in Forests (Flathead Beacon)
- Roadless rule reinstated (Great Falls Tribune)
- Obama reinstates forest road ban (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
- Agriculture Secretary Takes Charge of National Forest Roadless Areas (Environment News Service)
- Vilsack to Review Road Projects in Remote Forests (Update1) (Bloomberg)
