Our Issues

Our Issues

Alaska (click to Enlarge)Alaska Wilderness League is the only Washington, D.C.-based environmental group devoted full-time to protecting Alaska’s wild lands.


Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Brooks Range ©Pam MillerArctic National Wildlife Refuge Campaign
Learn more about the long battle to protect the magnificent and imperiled Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from the threat of oil exploration and drilling.


gwichin.jpgEnvironmental Justice
Learn more about the growing environmental justice concerns in Arctic communities, where industrial development is as much a threat to the physical environment as it is a violation of human rights and social justice.


Colville River Delta ©Gary BraaschNPR-A Campaign: Preventing the Spread of Oil and Gas Development Across Alaska
Learn more about the most threatened ecologically sensitive areas in Alaska’s western Arctic that are under immediate threat as the oil and gas industry and the federal government remain determined to develop every acre of our most sensitive public lands at any cost.


Offshore Sunset courtesy of NOAAOffshore Campaign: Beaufort and Chukchi Sea Outer Continental Shelf
Learn more about threats to the amazing Arctic Ocean, where the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas together with the Northern Bering Sea, make up one of the most abundant marine ecosystems in the world.


Tongass National Forest © David Ngo / GreenpeaceRainforests Campaign
Learn more about Alaska’s two National forests — the Tongass, which is the largest, most intact temperate rain forest in the world, and the Chugach, home to the Copper River Delta, the Kenai Peninsula, and Prince William Sound.