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
News Blog
On beings and biomes—the perpetual homecoming of migratory birds
by Dawnell Smith Three years ago, a four-month-old bar-tailed godwit flew nonstop for...
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
On beings and biomes—caribou and their migrations
By Madison Grosvenor Each year in Alaska, caribou carve their way across thousands...
13 August, 2025
On why making a will is kindness
By Dawnell Smith When someone dies, someone else grapples with their stuff. They...
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
On beings and biomes—beluga whales
By Dawnell Smith Beluga whales look every bit as darling as the ones...
10 July, 2025
What does the Endangered Species Act do?
By Madison Grosvenor Alaska is undergoing rapid change. Melting sea ice, thawing permafrost,...
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
What does the Clean Water Act do, and how do we safeguard it during a deregulation dumpster fire?
By Dawnell Smith A few summers ago, I paddled with friends through the...
17 June, 2025
Beings and biomes—an intertidal abundance
By Madison Grosvenor Twice a day, the ocean pulls away from Alaska's shorelines,...
12 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
Stay here and fight, stay here and dance
By Christin Swearingen “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens...
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
360 degrees around
By Tracy Lohman The flight from Seattle to Tokyo was ten-plus hours and...
14 April, 2025
On beings and biomes—a year in the tundra
By Madison Grosvenor Alaska’s tundra is a land of extremes, where life has...
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
Alaska News Brief March 2025—the gutting of public lands
I never watched “The Apprentice” and don’t revel in people getting fired....
19 March, 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
Beings and biomes: keystone and indicator species
By Madison Grosvenor Imagine walking under the masonry arch of an old castle....
18 March, 2025
How to focus on Fridays
By Madison Grosvenor If you’ve seen Trustees on social media over the last...
18 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