by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 28, 2022 | Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
Clean water is critically important for people and salmon, landscapes and communities. One way that we can ensure clean water and healthy salmon is to protect surface water (like streams and lakes) and groundwater (such as aquifers and underground water between rocks,...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 14, 2022 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Healthy Habitat
By Chandler Spoon, Inletkeeper Legal Intern At Colorado Law, environmental law and American Indian law are inextricably linked. I left my classical music career solely to study the former but quickly became immersed in the latter asking how can so much of our modern...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Jul 13, 2022 | Arts, Events, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
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...
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 6, 2022 | Arts, Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Events, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
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...