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The Porcupine Caribou Herd in water, the plain, the mountains behind.

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