Alaska News Brief September 2025—The year ahead, the year behind
Sometimes it feels like we’re moving lickety-split toward a goal, keeping a...
12 September, 2025
The big gamble
by Peg Tileston, founder and longtime board member When we founded Trustees for...
11 September, 2025
What is the Administrative Procedure Act?
By Madison Grosvenor Who makes sure federal agencies play by the rules when...
11 September, 2025
Alaska News Brief August 2025— Darkness before the dawn
In 1650, after living through about eight years of civil war in...
13 August, 2025
Bloom Again—a book about us
By Dawnell Smith Marybeth Holleman found herself taking a leap of faith. The...
13 August, 2025
Alaska News Brief July 2025—The real Moby Dick story
The true story that inspired the iconic book “Moby Dick” tells a...
10 July, 2025
The big bad budget bill and what Alaska stands to lose
By Madison Grosvenor While fireworks lit up the sky this Fourth of July,...
10 July, 2025
Waste no time—the Arctic needs you to speak up right now
Last week the Trump administration took another swing at the Arctic and...
24 June, 2025
Alaska News Brief June 2025—What the midnight sun reveals
The sun ignites life, and a whole world rises up. The rhubarb in...
18 June, 2025
Court ruling lets ConocoPhillips dig in on the Willow oil project
By Dawnell Smith An appellate court decision last week allows ConocoPhillips to continue...
18 June, 2025
Alaska News Brief May 2025—Live like a hermit crab
I’d like to live like a hermit crab, carrying my protective shell...
16 May, 2025
A brutally dangerous budget bill and how you can help stop it
By Dawnell Smith Congress is misusing a budget process to try to push...
16 May, 2025
Beyond control: The fight for science, ethics, and coexistence in Alaska’s predator policies
By Madison Grosvenor Last month’s court ruling that found the State of Alaska’s...
16 May, 2025
Alaska News Brief April 2025—It’s been a month, and I’m pissed off
Sigh. It’s been a month and then some. Late in March we got...
14 April, 2025
Wildlife management or managing ourselves—a look at predator control practices in Alaska
By Madison Grosvenor Last month, the Alaska Wildlife Alliance secured a major victory...
14 April, 2025
The law under fire—what does NEPA do?
By Dawnell Smith Decades ago, bulldozers plowed interstate highways across the country without...
19 March, 2025
Alaska News Brief February 2025–how to drink from a fire hydrant
How do you drink from a fire hydrant? Well, first, take a deep...
14 February, 2025
Our response to the Trump administration’s industrialization agenda in Alaska
The Trump administration released a rash of executive orders on Jan. 20....
21 January, 2025
President Jimmy Carter’s visionary stand for Alaska
by Dawnell Smith President Jimmy Carter died this month, but his lifelong expression...
15 January, 2025
Good news for the Arctic Refuge—no bids submitted in latest lease sale
By Madison Grosvenor This month, the U.S. Department of the Interior held the...
15 January, 2025
Alaska News Brief December 2024. Keep bringing the light.
Winter just started, according to the astronomical calendar, but most Alaskans have...
20 December, 2024
What’s the Izembek Refuge land swap and road proposal really about?
By Dawnell Smith In the early 1980s and for decades after, Alaska legislators,...
20 December, 2024
The fifth decade—goodbye coal, hello chaos
By Dawnell Smith The last decade feels like a dust storm—like a blur...
22 November, 2024
Some things always/never change: Alaska News Brief October 2024
By Teresa Clemmer, legal director We’ve had an incredibly rainy summer—fifth wettest on...
18 October, 2024
Drinks with Ashley—because Texas wasn’t big enough
By Dawnell Smith Ashley Boyd caught herself off guard this summer when she...
18 October, 2024
Local and global – Megan’s drive to learn about and support environmental protection
By Megan Mason Dister I grew up in Norfolk, Virginia, where I loved...
18 October, 2024
Ashley goes from city life to dry cabin to Trustees
By Ashley Donovan Growing up in sunny Ventura County, California, I thought of...
18 October, 2024
Bingo! Come Fall into 50 with us: Alaska news brief September 2024
I spent 16 days at sea in August, starting in Southampton, England,...
17 September, 2024
What Alaska animal would you be? We asked a few board members and their answers are telling
By Dawnell Smith Here in the last months of our 50th year and...
17 September, 2024
D1 stands for doggone good news for Alaska!
By Madison Grosvenor In a decision that echoes across the mountains, rivers, and...
17 September, 2024