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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

Here’s to the Long Haul

November 7, 2018

 In Alaska, we’re used to the darkness,  and we’re also used to finding and celebrating the light – so let’s take a minute and celebrate the new voices, many of them women, who were elected last night around the country and who will help us reshape the conversation and build the world we know is possible.

Votey McVoter Face

November 2, 2018

If you don’t do it for the sticker, than do it for democracy, civil rights, and the future of wild salmon – you know, because those things are important too.

Stand For Salmon: The Long View

October 31, 2018

Written by Sue Mauger, Science Director We live in, play around and benefit from a salmon landscape. Wild salmon unite and define us as Alaskans. We pride ourselves in living differently up here, but we are making the same mistakes that others made across the world when they chose incompatible development over salmon. Stand for […]

Exxon Says “No” Salmon on Ballot Measure 1

October 26, 2018

ExxonMobil has donated a total of $1 Million to vote “No’ for salmon on Ballot Measure 1. In 2017, Exxon Mobil Corporation earned 2nd place on the Fortune 500 list, making it the largest privately-owned oil and energy company in the world. Exxon enjoyed profits over 19.7 BILLION dollars. Or, enough to cover the $507.5 million […]

Former U.S. Commissioner to Anadromous Fish Commission Says “Vote YES on 1!”

October 23, 2018

I spent 38 yrs. managing fisheries from California to the Arctic, and I support Ballot Measure 1. My career included: Salmonid (salmon, steelhead, trout) management as a Pacific and North Pacific Fishery Management Council member; developing amendments to the Forest Practices Act; an advisor in US/Canada Salmon Treaty negotiations and implementation, and reviewer of funding […]

Why are Native Corporations misleading their shareholders?

October 19, 2018

For the past 23 years, Cook Inletkeeper has worked hard for clean water and healthy habitat in Cook Inlet and around Alaska.  When we worked alongside residents in Tyonek and Beluga to prevent a coal company from Texas from mining through 14 miles of salmon streams on the west side of Cook Inlet, we witnessed […]

Paid for by Cook Inletkeeper.  Top 3 donors to Inletkeeper Action Fund are:  David McCargo, Anchorage, Alaska; Peter Mjos, Anchorage, Alaska; John and Rika Mouw, Homer, Alaska.