Events

Alaska Wilderness League’s team of field organizers frequently hold public events around the country. At these events, it is not uncommon for Alaska Wilderness League’s mascots to make an appearance… Watch out for polar bears!

Alaska Wilderness Week – Washington, DC – Mar. 24-28

Wilderness Week attendees, September 2007
Wilderness Week attendees, September 2007
APPLY NOW for the next Alaska Wilderness Week.
Alaska Wilderness Week 2012 will be March 24-28 and applications will be accepted through Feb. 17 for our limited number of spots.

Twice a year, Alaska Wilderness League, the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, and the National Audubon Society work with other organizations in the Alaska Coalition to hold Alaska Wilderness Week, an activism and leadership training in Washington, DC.

Attendees learn more about issues impacting public land and waters in Alaska, hearing first-hand accounts about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Tongass National Forest, the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, and special areas in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska like Teshekpuk Lake. Attendees also learn about the industrial threats to these areas and about how global warming – which Alaska is experiencing at a disproportionately high rate – is already affecting wild lands and waters, wildlife populations, and Alaska Native communities.