by Aaron Ford | Sep 17, 2026 | Community, Cook Inlet, Healthy Habitat
On August 23rd, a California-based engineering company called Rainmaker conducted an experiment over the lower Kenai Peninsula to test the effectiveness of its cloud-seeding technology. They flew several drones that released about 375g of silver iodide via flares...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Sep 17, 2026 | Alaska State Legislature, Healthy Habitat, West Su Access Road
The West Susitna Access Road is a proposed 100-mile industrial road through the Susitna watershed, designed primarily to open up remote lands for large-scale mining operations by primarily foreign companies. The project is split between AIDEA, which is pursuing...
by Aaron Ford | Aug 26, 2026 | Bears, blogs, Clean Water, Cook Inlet, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
In 2001, the US Department of Agriculture instituted the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which protected nearly 60 million acres from road construction and timber harvesting across the US. Some of our most important intact forests were designated as Inventoried...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Aug 26, 2026 | Community, Cook Inlet, Healthy Habitat
Last month, the State of Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced its plan to give the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) nearly 20,000 acres of public land near Houston, Alaska, under a “public and charitable use”...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Jul 22, 2026 | Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Oil & Gas
In yet another decision that puts industry over people, the Trump administration just handed Big Oil another big gift by merging two federal departments that oversee oil and gas activities in federal waters – the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the...
by Aaron Ford | Jul 20, 2026 | Belugas, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Oil & Gas
In the last two weeks, the Trump administration has pushed through three new federal rules that gut the Endangered Species Act (ESA). These changes repeal the ESA’s definition of “harm,” strip protections from threatened species, and hand more power to oil, gas, and...
