Posts Tagged ‘Alaska’
Descent of the Refuge
From Molly Booth, Morgan Shields and Chris Morgan, “Descent of the Refuge” brings awareness to protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge through the story of three friends on a backcountry skiing expedition around the Okpilak Watershed, and their journey across the Arctic Refuge coastal plain.
Read MoreChad Brown: Photographic Inspiration in the Arctic Refuge
The League’s Geography of Hope series continues with a trip through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with veteran Chad Brown!
Read MoreIzembek is a wildlife spectacle, even by Alaskan standards
As the debate over a proposed road through the heart of the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge continues, we recognize this wilderness as the wildlife sanctuary it is.
Read MoreA Shape in the Dark: Living and Dying with Brown Bears
The League’s Geography of Hope presentation featuring Drew Hamilton and Bjorn Dilhe, and highlighting Bjorn’s upcoming book “A Shape in the Dark” offers a unique chance to experience Alaska’s brown and black bears and learn from Bjorn’s lifelong experiences with and passion for these animals.
Read MoreTraveling in 2021: Be smart and safe on the road
Even as vaccines begin to roll out, coronavirus cases are spiking. But so is cabin fever, and it will only get worse as spring approaches, with the dark season giving slowly beginning to yield to the midnight sun.
Read MoreAn Arctic Refuge lease sale happened — so what now?
On January 6, as protests in Washington, D.C., morphed into an assault on the U.S. Capitol Building and democracy itself, thousands of miles away officials from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management were opening oil lease bids submitted for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain.
Read MoreSprinting to court to stop the Arctic Refuge sell-off
This post was written by our colleagues at Trustees for Alaska, and you can find the original post here.
Read MoreThe League’s Andy Moderow talks Tongass
Gary Strieker of This American Land spoke with our own Alaska director, Andy Moderow, about the Tongass and the Trump administration’s push to remove Roadless Rule protections.
Read MoreA bipartisan need for conservation
(This essay was provided to the League for reprint by Theodore Roosevelt IV, great-grandson of President Teddy Roosevelt. The essay was written in the first quarter of 2020 and appeared in The Explorers Log, Volume 52.1, Winter 2020. Cover image: Lincoln Else.)
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