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23 Dec, 2020
in America's Arctic, Bristol Bay, Clean Air and Water, News, Newsletters, Social justice, Wild Lands & Wildlife
Sharing the same space really matters. It helps us understand each other more fully, with compassion, and to better communicate the nuance when making a point, light heartedly ribbing a friend, sharing a favorite song by oversharing it, or dishing out another cinnamon roll--oh how I miss my mother's homemade holiday cinnamon rolls!
18 Sep, 2020
in America's Arctic, Bristol Bay, Clean Air and Water, Newsletters, People & Places
The National Environmental Policy Act, affectionately called NEPA in the alphabet soup of environmental law, is the cornerstone law that requires the federal government to look at the environmental, economic, social, and health impacts of any decision that might impact the environment. 
It applies to federal permitting decisions like those related to logging, mining, transportation, oil and gas extraction, and infrastructure like pipelines. It also applies to consequential multi-year land management plans that can set out how federal lands may be subjected to extractive projects. 

Most important, it gives local people and the public generally the chance to participate in the federal decision-making process to convey their concerns, knowledge, approval, and disapproval.

23 Aug, 2020
in America's Arctic, Clean Air and Water, Newsletters, People & Places
Like a lot of you, I feel a sense of chaos and overwhelm more than usual these days. The feeling can make it hard to remember everything in the last three years that has challenged our ability as human beings to make the world just and livable for everyone. But it's important to remember everything--all the pieces, and how they fit together in driving toward long-term outcomes.
21 Jul, 2020
in Newsletters
I'm packing right now for a trip to McNeil River next week. I need a break from computer screens and nonstop news. Hanging out with bears seems like a good refuge right now. I'm grateful I can do it, and aware that not everyone can. We all have to look for the light where we can, though, and lately I've found it in the streets and in courtrooms.
16 Jul, 2020
in Employment, People & Places
I am so grateful to the legal team at Trustees for being willing to work with me over Zoom. It’s certainly been a unique summer experience! The four-hour time difference means the occasional evening phone call—and while my team members in Alaska are happy that temperatures have just started hitting 70, I’ve been timing my daily runs to avoid afternoon highs of 90+ degrees. In these challenging times, I am so thankful for the work that the incredible team at Trustees is doing to safeguard our country's most special places. I'v
19 Mar, 2020
in News, Newsletters, People & Places
Alaska has lost a true gem. Former Alaska First Lady Bella Hammond passed away peacefully with her family on February 29, 2020. I am honored to have had her as a client in a Trustees’ case challenging Pebble’s mining exploration activities, and to call her friend.
28 Jan, 2020
in America's Arctic, News, Newsletters, People & Places
I started at Trustees in 1994 as an intern working on Cook Inlet water quality issues, and later as a staff attorney and legal director who took the Pebble project to court in 2009. Yep, we're in court again on Pebble, and still fighting to keep pollutants out of Cook Inlet, but our partnerships and coalitions have evolved and grown. In my nearly six years as executive director, I've learned one thing--that change is coming, even when it feels like the change we need won't budge.
17 Oct, 2019
in America's Arctic, People & Places
I have experienced many, many bear encounters--coastal brown bears in southwest and southeast Alaska, and black bears in central Alaska—but when I joined a trip to Barter Island with five other participants I got my first chance to see the “white bears" as the people we met in the Arctic called them.
20 Sep, 2019
in America's Arctic, News, Newsletters, People & Places
One of the benefits of working at Trustees for Alaska is that my work often takes me out of my office, sometimes even to the incredible places that we work to protect. Soon after I started as an attorney at Trustees, I was fortunate to be invited on a trip to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We spent 4 nights in the foothills of the Brooks Range, hiking and exploring the hills and braids of the Kongakut River. Surrounded by a landscape whose scale cannot be captured, the image that I return to often is that of a northern shrike nest, the speckled eggs nestled gently on a bed of ptarmigan feathers.
19 Sep, 2019
in Employment, News
While the Trump and Dunleavy administrations continue efforts to make Alaska a resource colony for Outside exploiters, we continue using our legal expertise to protect sacred places, public lands, clean water and air, the natural systems that nourish life, and the public processes that give people the power to hold decision-makers and decision-making processes accountable. Our workload demands more legal staff, so we are hiring now for a staff attorney and legal fellow. Does this sound like the law firm for you?