by Loren Barrett | Oct 24, 2024 | Bears, Belugas, Johnson Tract Mine
Why We Should Be Watching the Development of the Johnson Tract Mine UPDATE 10/28/2024: It seems the National Park Service (NPS) has canceled the inadequate 14-day public comment period on their resource analysis to assess a proposed haul road and port facility to...
by Loren Barrett | Oct 22, 2024 | Bears, Belugas, blogs, Clean Water, Cook Inlet, Healthy Habitat, Johnson Tract Mine, Mining
Protecting Cook Inlet Belugas and the Ecological Legacy of Tuxedni Bay Cook Inlet belugas, one of the most endangered whale populations in the world, face constant threats from habitat degradation, industrial activities, and the impacts of climate change. Among...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Feb 3, 2023 | Bears, Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
The EPA’s decision this week to veto the Pebble Mine and issue Clean Water Act protections for Bristol Bay is a victory for Alaskans and the Bristol Bay and Cook Inlet ecosystems! In all the ways you showed up: at rallies, signing petitions and postcards, with dollars...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jun 23, 2022 | Bears, Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Pebble Mine, Salmon
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...
by Sue Mauger | Jun 16, 2022 | Arts, Bears, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Pebble Mine, Salmon
On Monday, I saw a helicopter pilot I hadn’t seen in 14 years. Stan piloted my first trip in Bristol Bay to sample small headwater streams near the Pebble deposit. Seeing Stan brought up a flood of memories and names of people who have contributed to the decades of...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jun 2, 2022 | Bears, Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Pebble Mine, Salmon
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...
