by Sue Mauger | May 11, 2022 | Climate Change, Healthy Habitat, Salmon, Uncategorized
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,...
by Sue Mauger | Mar 1, 2022 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Salmon, Uncategorized
Cook Inletkeeper has been keeping a watchful eye on the west side of the Susitna River for years. When the state of Alaska permitted a 315-mile right-of-way for a gas pipeline to fuel the proposed Donlin Gold Mine, cutting a massive swath from Cook Inlet, over the...
by Sue Mauger | Dec 23, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon, Uncategorized
You look at seed catalogs in December. You buy snow blowers in June. You mend nets in August. You prepare for your future guided by your hopes for the future. So let’s all brush aside the fog of uncertainty clouding our vision over these last 18 months and...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Dec 21, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Uncategorized
The past 18 months have illuminated the tremendous unsustainable practices and social inequities throughout many sectors, including our globalized food system. We have seen food processors fall ill from lack of sick leave and protective equipment. Severely delayed...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Dec 2, 2021 | Bears, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon, Uncategorized
Fat Bear Week brings the wonder and joy of our Cook Inlet bears to people around the world! This year–for the fourth time!!–Otis (or brown bear 480) was crowned king! Otis–relying on the amazing rich nutrients in Katmai–ended the season...
