What you can do for the West Su—and other acts of love
By Dawnell Smith To the west of the Susitna River lies a huge...
16 August, 2024
Pulling the Pebble mine out of Alaska’s XTRATUFs
By Dawnell Smith A pebble underfoot can make walking unpleasant and irritating, and...
18 June, 2024
The third decade—clean water, mud-slinging, and nature running wild
By Madison Grosvenor Trustees for Alaska’s third decade focused heavily on the oil...
18 June, 2024
The second decade—dialed up to 11
By Dawnell Smith If you sum up the 1980s in a few words,...
17 May, 2024
Are you a joyful animal? — Alaska News Brief April 2024
I returned to the office last week after spending part of my...
19 April, 2024
The promise of Spring. Alaska News Brief March 2024
Greetings! It’s an honor to be standing in for Vicki while she’s off...
26 March, 2024
Drinks with lawyers – Vicki follows the whales
By Dawnell Smith Vicki remembers her fifth grade teacher asking everyone in class...
19 January, 2024
Short but sweet relief on Pebble as Arctic appeals heat up
By Dawnell Smith Significant court rulings can come in small but potent packages,...
18 January, 2024
Drilling and mining are economic vampires: Alaska News Brief October 2023
I’ve been thinking about metal and mineral mining a lot these days,...
20 October, 2023
Vicki talks about the other world
As a kid growing up in Iowa, there were no oceans. What...
15 September, 2023
The light always returns: Alaska News Brief June 2023
Earlier this month, I joined my mom on her last—for now—“bucket list”...
22 June, 2023
How building a house in Idaho changed national wetlands policy and now threatens waterways in Alaska
In late May, the U.S. Supreme Court again stepped out of its...
22 June, 2023
Protect the Western Susitna River area from unnecessary development
Learn about the proposed West Susitna Industrial Access Road through our storymap....
14 April, 2023
Between a rock and a hard place: Pushing for “green energy” mining could replace one catastrophe with another
By Dawnell Smith Clean energy is in the air these days—in the sun,...
22 October, 2022
A trip to the South Brooks Range makes the Ambler road threat palpable
One of the things that most struck me in flying across the...
20 September, 2022
Stories can teach, stories can lie: Alaska News Brief April 2022
It doesn’t take long spending time with dogs, bears, birds and bees...
15 April, 2022
What’s going on in Juneau?
The Alaska legislature finishes its first session of the year in mid-May,...
15 April, 2022
Warren Keogh talks about Alaska, advocacy, and why he gives
We first crossed paths with Warren Keogh when he served as vice...
15 April, 2022
EPA must protect Bristol Bay once and for all
For years, Alaskans have made it clear that trading salmon for copper...
29 July, 2021
Alaska New Brief March 2021: A year can change everything… and nothing
It’s hard to believe it has been a year since we first...
16 March, 2021
Pebble update 2021: State of Alaska vs. Alaskans
On Friday Jan. 6, during the siege on the Capitol, Gov. Dunleavy...
27 January, 2021
December 2020 News Brief–A winter reverie with Loki
Sharing the same space really matters. It helps us understand each other...
23 December, 2020
What will it take to protect Bristol Bay forever?
The U.S. Army Corps denied a permit for the proposed Pebble mine...
03 December, 2020
Key Pebble permit denied!
Good news! Today the Army Corps denied a Clean Water Act permit...
25 November, 2020
In memory and celebration of Todd Radenbaugh
Our friend and longtime Trustees board member Dr. Todd Radenbaugh died at...
29 October, 2020
Alaska News Brief September 2020: A bedrock law in peril
The National Environmental Policy Act, affectionately called NEPA in the alphabet soup...
18 September, 2020
Take care of the land and it will take care of you
Fannie Dock talks about growing up in Bristol Bay: I was born...
16 September, 2020
Alaska News Brief August 2020: The Long term consequences of greed
Like a lot of you, I feel a sense of chaos and...
23 August, 2020
Pebble in a time of COVID
Greed drives the Pebble project, and the pandemic hasn’t changed that. Pebble’s “business...
17 July, 2020
