Let the sun shine in—Alaska News Brief June 2026
Soon the longest day of sunlight in North America will embrace us:...
16 June, 2026
News Blog
Another failed Arctic Refuge lease sale and other Arctic news
By Madison Grosvenor Congress and the Trump administration made big revenue promises about...
16 June, 2026
Litigation 101: What’s an integrated activity plan and how does it play into Interior’s proposed rule to rubber stamp Big Oil projects like Willow in the Arctic?
By Dawnell Smith Federal agencies use general management plans and review processes to...
16 June, 2026
On beings and biomes—the pacific walrus
By Megan Mason Dister, legal fellow “Walruses are coastline embodied,” writes Bathsheba Demuth...
16 June, 2026
The season of care—Alaska News Brief May 2026
The month of May tends to make people happy and keep them...
14 May, 2026
Litigation 101: What are declarations and why are we preparing so many right now?
By Dawnell Smith You know those courtroom dramas where someone stands up and stuns the room with a declaration that no one saw coming?...
14 May, 2026
Being and biomes—the mighty morel
By Christin Swearingen Walking through the burned forest, between black, bare trunks, my...
14 May, 2026
Help protect the Arctic Refuge. Write your “Dear Big Oil” letter now
by Dawnell Smith The Trump administration plans to auction off public land sacred...
06 May, 2026
Interior’s fist pumping lease sale and Big Oil’s gluttonous ride—Alaska News Brief April 2026
The Interior Department held a lease sale last month that offered a...
15 April, 2026
Beings and biomes—Alaska’s iconic brown bear
By Ashley Donovan, legal fellow Every summer, dozens of massive, powerful brown bears converge along the braided rivers,...
15 April, 2026
Bad news for bears, wolves, and even raptors
By Madison Grosvenor The Trump administration again stripped away what little federal protection remains for bears and wolves...
15 April, 2026
Stopping an unconstitutional Mulchatna bear killing program before it reloads this spring
By Madison Grosvenor Early this month, we filed an emergency motion asking the court to stop...
15 April, 2026
Small things, big bears—Alaska News Brief March 2026
Remember back during the pandemic when people started seeing more animals in cities? A...
16 March, 2026
News on Arctic lawsuits and lease sales
By Dawnell Smith The Trump administration continues using whatever means it chooses, even when unlawful and without consideration of impacts, to...
16 March, 2026
Between a rock and a hard place—Pebble is still the monster lurking under the bed
By Madison Grosvenor It’s not often we find ourselves on the same side of a legal argument as...
16 March, 2026
Beings and biomes—Arctic raptors
By Dawnell Smith A peregrine falcon pivots from soaring majesty to plummeting projectile...
16 March, 2026
YOU ROCK 4EVER XOXO—Alaska News Brief February 2026
The retail sector makes a big deal of Valentine’s Day. There’s money to be made, of...
12 February, 2026
Donor love—Rich Seifert sees the throughline
By Dawnell Smith Smog, pesticides, burning rivers and oil spills grabbed the attention...
12 February, 2026
On beings and biomes—the translucent bear
By Dawnell Smith In Phillip Pullman’s “The Dark Materials” books, the mighty polar bear finds himself exiled from his kingdom. Humans trick him into drunkenness, so...
12 February, 2026
Arctic news—threats loom over the Arctic Refuge and Southern Brooks Range
By Madison Grosvenor A series of federal actions and legal developments this month...
12 February, 2026
Time to talk to the critters—Alaska News Brief January 2026
As I check off my to-do list before heading to Ecuador for...
14 January, 2026
Our Arctic Refuge litigation ramps up, and caribou herd populations show a decline
By Dawnell Smith Yesterday we filed an amended and supplemental complaint in our 2020 lawsuit challenging the shoddy Trump leasing...
14 January, 2026
Between a rock and a hard place—hard rock mining’s toxic stew
By Dawnell Smith Industrial mining destroys the lands where it blasts, drills, crushes, and digs. It poisons streams, rivers, and lakes and requires perpetual...
14 January, 2026
Beings and biomes—life in the subnivean zone
By Madison Grosvenor The snow is finally falling in Southcentral. I have eagerly awaited skiing on fresh...
14 January, 2026
A heart two sizes too small can grow after all—Alaska News Brief December 2025
A bone chill keeps pestering me this holiday season. At times, the forecast for warmth and merriment feels superficial at best. I mean, it’s...
18 December, 2025
Margaret Williams talks about the Arctic
By Margaret Williams, Trustees board member As a kid growing up in a...
18 December, 2025
A gratitude challenge
Winter solstice always invites a moment of pause. It gives us an...
16 December, 2025
On beings and biomes—sea ice is everyone’s business
By Madison Grosvenor Though frozen, the sea ice biome is anything but still....
16 December, 2025
With gratitude to you, we sue—Alaska News Brief November 2025
This week we sued the Alaska State Board of Game and the...
14 November, 2025
We sued Interior for illegally trading away public lands in Izembek Refuge
By Dawnell Smith While Alaskans faced job furloughs and worried about food and...
14 November, 2025