Charlotte Tanner’s Tongass Story
For half a century, I have witnessed the Tongass Forest being cut down as though it were a golf course. It makes my heart bleed.
Rebecca Caulfield’s Tongass Story
I am not a resident of Alaska, nor have I ever visited the Tongass National Forest. However, I am a Seattleite who enjoys hiking in the incredible sweeping woodlands of Washington state.
Missed The Roadless Rule Webinar? Listen Here!
SEACC Roadless Rules WebinarAhead of an expected release of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Alaska Roadless Rule, SEACC hosted a webinar for community members on May 12 to discuss the Alaska Roadless Rulemaking process. We talked about how the public...Climate Warrior: Trixie Bennett on 10,000 years of Native Resiliency
We have some of, if not the best, fisheries that are left on the planet. We need to preserve that.
Climate Warrior: Tis Peterman Bridges a Transboundary Divide
Tis Peterman of Wrangell, who is both Tlingit and Tahltan, can trace her lineage back to an arranged marriage between Chief Shakes the 7th and a Tahltan woman who took a canoe down the Stikine, and even further back on her Tlingit side. That ancestry took on renewed...Climate Warrior: Wanda Culp stands up for Native sovereignty
“We are tied into the rules of nature as a people. We cannot go against the rules of nature. Our cultural existence depends on understanding the rules of nature.”
Climate Warrior: ‘Herring Woman’ Louise Brady fights for Sitka herring fishery
“It’s not our job to make money off of herring. It is our job to live in harmony, to live with the environment. We have to understand that we are no different, no better than the fish we are eating, the herring eggs I am eating. It’s a holistic way of looking at things.”
SEACC Policy Review: Update to the Regulations Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the NEPA
In this 50th year of NEPA, it is particularly egregious that the Trump Administration has chosen to dismantle the nation’s bedrock environmental law. SEACC has identified the following categories of major changes that are the most troubling: New limits on the scope of...Road to No Road
It was in the early 1990s that the latest incarnation of “The Road” took shape. The idea was to create easier access to Juneau, Alaska’s capitol, which remains accessible only by air or sea. While Juneau is not the only capitol city not connected by road, sharing that designation with Honolulu and Victoria, BC, it is the only one located on the mainland.