Inletkeeper Blog
Celebrating Alaska’s connection to salmon at Salmonfest
It's salmon season in Alaska and that means people all over the State are putting on their waders or grundens, pulling out their nets and poles, and heading out to our salmon waters at all hours of the day and night. In our watershed, Dena’ina, Alutiiq and Sugpiaq...
PROPOSED NEW OIL & GAS LEASE IN COOK INLET DESPITE OVERWHELMING OPPOSITION
Although 99.98% of the nearly 93,000 people commented in opposition to the recent proposed Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet, today the Biden Administration released a proposed plan that includes a lease sale in Lower 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...
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...
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...
Push Back Against Pebble Mine, One Last Time
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...