by SEACC | Nov 15, 2023 | Blog, Ravencall
Alaska forest management plans falling short Southeast Alaska has one of the richest natural resources in the world: its vast temperate rainforest, including large tracts of undisturbed old-growth trees, the carbon storage stars of the climate discussion. Recently,...
by SEACC | Nov 15, 2023 | Blog, Ravencall
Two bills bode well for renewable energy in Alaska Alaska’s oil math doesn’t add up. The state subsidizes oil extraction to the point of bankrupting itself, while regular Alaskans pay some of the highest fuel prices in the country and have some of the highest per...
by SEACC | Nov 8, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Press Releases
Regional groups seek tougher standards to protect Chilkat Watershed from Palmer Project wastewater HAINES, ALASKA DEISHÚ/LḴÓOT AND JILḴÁAT KWÁAN, November 1, 2023 — Conservation organizations challenged a controversial wastewater discharge permit for the Palmer...
by SEACC | Nov 2, 2023 | Ravencall
by SEACC | Oct 25, 2023 | Blog, Featured
This morning, at 10:30 am Alaska time, the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining is having a hearing on pending legislation that includes three bills sponsored by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, including S.1889: the ‘Unrecognized Southeast Alaska...
by SEACC | Oct 16, 2023 | Blog, Tongass
The Forest Service is proposing to log and treat more than 25,000 acres of young-growth timber near Thorne Bay and we are justifiably concerned. The Thorne Bay Basin Integrated Resource Management Project was initially scoped in 2022, but due to an intense response,...
by SEACC | Oct 6, 2023 | Blog
SEACC’s long-serving Executive Director, Meredith Trainor, will be moving on from SEACC in the new year, and the Board is about to embark on a hiring process to identify a successor. As Co-Chairs of the Board of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, and on behalf...
by SEACC | Sep 30, 2023 | Blog, Featured
It is with deep gratitude and appreciation that I am writing you today to share that I plan to transition out of the Executive Director role at SEACC in early 2024. Leading SEACC over the last seven plus years has been the journey — and privilege — of a lifetime, and...
by SEACC | Sep 28, 2023 | Blog
Changes are coming to NEPA, the foundational law that governs most of SEACC’s work at the federal level. The Council for Environmental Quality (CEQ) announced, on July 28, a Phase 2 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking—the “Bipartisan Permitting Reform Implementation...
by SEACC | Sep 8, 2023 | Blog, Climate change, Featured
The news this summer has, frankly, been overwhelming — even for someone like me who has the privilege of being paid to pay attention to climate change. The disastrous Suicide Basin flood of the Mendenhall River. The landslides in downtown Juneau that now seem almost...
