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Defend Your Vision for Cook Inlet

Defend Your Vision for Cook Inlet

If you are like me, you feel like we just celebrated Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet being taken off the table. Unfortunately, as many of you are only too familiar with, we are again facing a proposed lease sale in Lower Cook Inlet.  President Biden and the Department of Interior proposed a five-year plan for more offshore oil and gas leases...

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Go Mine the Dump Instead of Baby Salmon Nurseries in Bristol Bay

Go Mine the Dump Instead of Baby Salmon Nurseries in Bristol Bay

How many times do we have to say NO to a bad project that would harm Alaskans? Most Alaskans know the main storyline of the decades-long Pebble Mine saga: Geologists discover the pebble deposit in 1987; A series of foreign companies thought it would be easy to dig a giant pit and mine the headwaters of Bristol Bay; Alaskans said, wait, you want...

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WTF is an NFT?

WTF is an NFT?

*The following is not financial advice. We are providing information as part of our own journey to understand this technology and where it fits into our commitment to climate, our communities, and art as advocacy. Inletkeeper has been selected to receive a portion of the proceeds from Cryosphere, an NFT created by Epoch Gallery, a group of...

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Visualizing a Just Transition

Visualizing a Just Transition

Over the three-day Nughelnik: Alaska Just Transition Summit in Anchorage May 20-22, Inletkeeper staff joined 500 other attendees from around the State of Alaska. Organized by The Alaska Just Transition Collective - a coalition of Alaska partners building a shared visionary path for Alaska by addressing the growing political, economic, and...

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Regenerative Economies: Cornerstones for a Just Transition

Regenerative Economies: Cornerstones for a Just Transition

“It’s time to find our way back to what our ancestors had. Our people come from just economies, and we need to bring everyone with us, especially those most intent on destroying the Earth because we can’t afford that anymore”  - Karlin Itchoak, Alaska State Director at the Wilderness Society This past May, many of Cook Inletkeeper’s staff...

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Defend the Bear Coast from Pebble Mine

Defend the Bear Coast from Pebble Mine

Alaska’s bears and salmon are inextricably linked. During the summer months, while Alaskans are filling our freezers with salmon, the brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula are storing up their salmon for the winter. Bears of the Alaska Peninsula are incredible — eating dozens of salmon and gaining up to 4 pounds a day. The National Park Service...

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Living as Conservation Medicine Experts in Alaska

Living as Conservation Medicine Experts in Alaska

By Kayla Walsh, Alaska Conservation Foundation Intern What brings a city girl like me to Cook Inlet, a place I hadn’t heard of just 6 months ago? Well, I started a graduate program in Conservation Medicine and I’m here to learn all about it from the real experts: Alaskans! I’ve been asked what Conservation Medicine is countless times since...

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Tell the EPA to Finish the Job & Defend Bristol Bay

Tell the EPA to Finish the Job & Defend Bristol Bay

On May 26, we started what we hope will be the LAST comment period advocating for strong protections under the Clean Water Act to defend Bristol Bay from destructive mining by a Canadian company. Many of you have been with us in this fight for years and years. Bristol Bay Native Corporation put together a timeline in 2017– 5 years ago – of what...

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Meaningful Community Action: Let’s Get to Work!

Meaningful Community Action: Let’s Get to Work!

Working together, Alaskans are a powerful force for positive change in our communities. Let's roll up our sleeves and put local solutions into action! We’ve all seen what happens when outsiders come in and do things without meaningful input from locals: We get cookie cutter houses built for Florida winters where all the roofs shed snow right onto...

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