Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced on March 14 that the department would withdraw from the land exchange between the Interior Department and King Cove Corporation authorized in July 2019. This is great news. It means that Izembek National Wildlife Refuge remains protected and intact–for now.… Read More

By Theresa Soley, communications coordinator Expired bread and donuts stuffed into five-gallon buckets, with grease or cooking oil to produce a stronger scent. Maybe meat, candy, and other rotting garbage stacked into a bait pile – and left at a … Read More

Here we are, well into Alaska’s notorious faux spring, where we’re so excited about the returning light that we forget we’ve got another two or three months of deep winter. If you love snow, Anchorage sure has it. I don’t mean to pour water on those fired up about playing in snow, but I’d be happy to do less shoveling. Especially since I’ve mostly run out of places to put it and I’m having trouble throwing snow that high!

I guess that’s the state of play for Trustees, too.… Read More

The ConocoPhillips Willow oil and gas proposal is on the move–and so is the Arctic Refuge Protection Act. Right now, bad news can be made good and the good news better. Let’s talk about how.… Read More

Recently, a magistrate judge with the federal District Court in Alaska issued findings and recommendations in one of our cases. This is not a final ruling, however. Here’s what happened and why we’re filing formal objections.… Read More

We’ve been in court over hunting rules on national park lands, including the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and national preserves in Alaska. Here’s an update on what’s happened and what’s next. … Read More

We had some big changes at Trustees last year. We moved into a new office and are still settling in as we continue to transition from remote work to a hybrid workplace where we get to connect in person again. … Read More

The National Park Service released a proposed rule earlier this month that would prohibit bear baiting, killing wolves during denning season, killing bear cubs in dens, and other hunting practices aimed at killing predator animals to manipulate natural predator-prey dynamics in national preserves in Alaska. This rule would replace a 2020 rule that allowed these practices and was later deemed illegal in court.… Read More

On a sunny December afternoon in Pasadena, California, we argued before a full panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to protect national parks and refuges in Alaska, and to uphold the integrity of a law intended to conserve these lands and the subsistence uses of them. We’ll talk about the oral argument soon, but we first want to overview what’s at stake.… Read More