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Protecting Alaska's Cook Inlet watershed and the life it sustains since 1995.

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Our salmon are stressed

We've been monitoring stream temperatures across the Cook Inlet watershed since 2002. It is clear that salmon are already experiencing thermal stress and that, over the next 50 years, more streams will get warmer more often.

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Kenai Peninsula Food Hub

95% of Alaska’s food is currently imported. Purchasing local food supports local farms, increases our region’s food security, protects the environment, creates jobs and boosts the local economy.

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Dangerous Hilcorp Leases in Heart of Cook Inlet

In the Environmental Impact Statement for Lease Sale 149 in 1997, the federal government estimated a 72% chance of a large spill.

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Protecting Alaska’s Cook Inlet watershed
and the life it sustains since 1995.

Frontlines of Climate Change

Cook Inletkeeper opposes all new oil and gas leasing in Cook Inlet until the state embraces a realistic plan to address rapid climate change in Alaska.

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supporting local economies

Purchasing local food supports local farms, increases our region’s food security, protects the environment, creates jobs and boosts the local economy.

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From the inletkeeper blog

The Corporate War on Salmon – Part IV

April 19, 2018

Most working Alaskans consider $500,000 to be a lot of money.  And of course, it is. But not when you’re a giant multinational oil company. British Petroleum recently dropped $500,000 to try to stop the Stand for Salmon ballot initiative, which would update Alaska’s 60-year-old, one-sentence-long salmon habitat protection law. To put that into context, however, […]

Pebble: When NO means NO

April 6, 2018

  >> Submit your Public Comment Here << Since day one, your opposition to the Pebble open pit mine in the headwaters of the richest sockeye fishery in the world has run strong. You showed up to public hearings, you wrote comments, you voted at the ballot box. The message was always clear: the risks […]

The War on Alaska Salmon: Conflicts of Interest & Corporate Influence Infect Wild Salmon Protection

February 26, 2018

Your right as an Alaskan to wild, healthy salmon is under assault. These are strong words, and we don’t take them lightly.  But the fact remains that large corporations are now woven into the very fabric of our government and our society, and their corporate DNA is manifesting itself in countless ways, big and small, […]