by Matt Jackson | Sep 13, 2021 | Blog, Climate change, Featured
SEACC Climate Organizer Matt Jackson spotlights how climate change will affect mountain goats on a recent hunt — but hopefully, Alaska will correct its course. Halfway up the mountain, we start having second thoughts. First, it was a dash across a steep ravine with...
by Meredith Trainor | Aug 25, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Press Releases
Two years ago, in late summer 2019, we reached out to you to share our excitement about our then-approaching 50th birthday, which SEACC would celebrate at the beginning of 2020. We had big, big plans for that celebration — a launch event in Juneau with some of our...
by Aaron Brakel | Aug 18, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Press Releases
Kensington Gold Mine — located north of Juneau and across Berners Bay, just beyond the end of the road — is moving forward on its efforts to expand the dumping of mine waste into Alaskan waters overhanging the bay. The mine has already dumped over 4 million tons of...
by Aaron Brakel | Aug 17, 2021 | Blog
Dear friends of Berners Bay, If you made a public comment on the proposed Kensington Mine expansion and closure plan — then you are now eligible to make a formal objection by August 23. Objecting is a structured and formal process, but the barrier is not too high....
by Meredith Trainor | Jul 15, 2021 | Blog, Climate change, Featured, Press Releases, Tongass
It is with great joy that we write to share that this morning, the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture announced that the Forest Service and USDA will initiate a rulemaking that proposes to restore 2001 Roadless Rule protections on the Tongass!...
by Lauren Cusimano | Jun 11, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 11, 2021 Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC) Celebrates Biden’s Tongass Turnover, Calls for Formal Reinstatement of Full, National Roadless Rule Protections for the Tongass The Biden administration committed today to ‘repeal or...
