State Predator Controls Go Too Far for National Preserves
UPDATE: We have submitted comments on behalf of our clients to the National...
Eighty percent of Alaska is public land. This includes national parks, forests, refuges, and wilderness areas teeming with life and healthy populations of animals like whales, wolves, caribou, moose, bears, wolverines, salmon and a diverse array of fish, birds, small mammals, and insects. Many of these species are unique to the state or have been endangered or eliminated from areas in the rest of the country.
Under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Alaska gained substantial protections for lands deemed important to the nation. Agencies regulate some of these lands for multiple uses and face intense pressure from the industry to allow resource extraction in protected areas. The demand for increased motorized access, new road construction, oil and gas exploration and extraction, large-scale industrial mining, aggressive predator control measures like brown bear baiting, and other exploitive activities threaten these lands and the flora and fauna dependent on them. Trustees keeps a watchful eye on how state and federal agencies enforce the laws and regulations meant to safeguard our public lands and resources.
UPDATE: We have submitted comments on behalf of our clients to the National...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the authority of the National...
[caption id="attachment_3217" align="alignright" width="255"] Eelgrass channels in Izembek Lagoon as seen from...
Trustees for Alaska is going to court once again to protect the...
A victory for ANILCA and Alaska. Just one day after ANILCA's anniversary,...
Populations of wildlife eradicated by allowing aerial hunting In a brief filed today...
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park prevailed in court against the Hale lawsuit over...
Trustees settles with Wrangell-St. Elias in a lawsuit challenging off-road vehicle use...
Trustees files a lawsuit challenging Wrangell-St. Elias's mismanagement of off-road vehicle (ORV)...
Conservation groups today criticized U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Gale Norton for...
Conservation groups intervene to protect Denali National Park from damaging snow machine...
NPS formally closed all of Old Denali (the former Mt. McKinley National...
This winter, the fight over snowmachines in Denali National Park and Preserve...