Inletkeeper Blog
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:...
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...
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...
Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet Canceled
Another red herring is that canceled lease sales like Lease Sale 258 continue to contribute to rising gas prices. This isn’t true. There are thousands of active leases that the industry has that could be developed at any time. Even if these leases were issued tomorrow, it would be years before any oil and gas would be produced from Lower Cook Inlet. These leases have no impact on our current oil and gas prices.
Cold-water Treasure Maps
The blue lines on topographic maps necessarily under-represent the complex movement of freshwater across floodplains, through wetlands and gravel bars. For a juvenile fish, the blue lines are experienced as a maze of currents, temperature, food and hiding places,...
Energy Democracy in Alaska
An abbreviated version of this piece was initially published in our Spring 2022 newsletter. When America began to electrify, lights came on first in cities. It made commercial sense: the city's affluent could easily foot the cost of power, and urban density meant less...