by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 6, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon, Uncategorized
Through the Central Kenai Peninsula’s Community Compost project, we’ve learned just how much organic matter matters in our watershed. At number three out of the top 100 solutions to reverse global warming (drawdown.org), reducing food waste will take a huge bite out...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 22, 2021 | Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
Cook Inletkeeper works to ensure our state government protects our wild salmon. We fought the state when it authorized the industry to destroy 11 miles of Alaskan salmon streams for the proposed Chuitna Coal Mine. Our Government and industry repeatedly claim that they...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Aug 9, 2021 | Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Salmon, Uncategorized
The fact that fish need water and that Alaskans love their fish should not be controversial. But the House Fisheries Committee held a meeting to learn about the Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) proposed changes to the regulations that allow Alaskans to...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jun 10, 2021 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
Alaskans are blessed with an abundance unlike anywhere else. And that abundance translates to a richness of life we all savor. It’s hard to find anyone who voted for Trump or Biden who disagrees: we all love Alaska. So, why are we squandering this rich legacy...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 26, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
By Claire Babbott-Bryan, Climate Change and Wild Salmon Intern I’ve been a water nerd my whole life. It began, as it so often does, with the third-grade interdisciplinary river unit. In English class, we wrote poetry personifying the local biota. In art, we crafted...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Apr 9, 2021 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon
Conservationist and ecologist Aldo Leopold published his pivotal essay Land Ethic in 1949. Central to this essay is a call for honoring our moral responsibility to the natural world, by caring not only about ourselves, but also the land, and the inseparable...
