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Recent Press Releases
- Valentines for the Tongass Feb 11, 2010
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Juneau residents come out to share their love of the Tongass with SenatorsOn Thursday evening, Juneau residents turned out at the Ruby Room in the Emporium Mall downtown to make Valentines expressing their love for the Tongass National Forest. The Southeast Alaska Conservation Council will send the valentines to Alaska Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich.
- Prince of Wales community voices concern over Sealaska legislation despite legislator’s comments Jan 28, 2010
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Unanimous vote adds to long list of local oppositionToday, the City of Craig, Alaska, on Prince of Wales Island, released its official letter raising significant concerns about legislation that would grant over 70,000 acres of the Tongass National Forest to the private Sealaska Corporation.
- SEACC joins push for renewable energy, hires coordinator Jan 07, 2010
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Lifelong resident to help communities get off diesel and onto renewable energyThe Southeast Alaska Conservation Council today introduced Juneau resident Dan Lesh as their Energy Coordinator, a new position the organization will use to help advance renewable energy in Southeast Alaska.
- Alaska Native, Tourism, and Conservation Groups Seek Protection for Roadless Areas in Tongass National Forest Dec 22, 2009
- The lawsuit filed today - Organized Village of Kake v U.S. Department of Agriculture - seeks to end the 2003, Bush-era decision to “temporarily” exempt the Tongass from the national Roadless Rule. The lawsuit asserts that this exemption was illegally adopted.
Recent Press Clips
- Angoon Home Tests Energy Efficiency Technology Aug 17, 2010
- Dan Lesh, SEACC's Energy Coordinator talks about the Sustainable Angoon project.
- State updates list of polluted, improved waterways Aug 04, 2010
- Guy Archibald, SEACC's Water Quality Coordinator talks about Southeast Alaska's polluted waters
- Energy self-sufficiency demonstration project gets underway in Angoon Aug 04, 2010
- SEACC's Energy Coordinator, Dan Lesh, talks about the Sustainable Angoon project.
- Kake residents discuss diesel alternatives Jul 30, 2010
- SEACC's Energy Coordinator, Dan Lesh, talks about Kake's renewable energy efforts
- Federal Court of Appeals takes up in Anchorage Jul 28, 2010
- Alaska's District Court blocked a project to build a nearly half-billion-dollar stretch of road from Juneau north to Skagway. The state now wants to resurrect the Juneau Access Project by challenging that decision in front of the circuit court of appeals.
