by Chiara D'Angelo | Feb 15, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Press Releases
JUNEAU (Tlingit: Aakʼw Ḵwáan Lands) — A coalition of more than 80 conservation groups, including Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC), launched a new campaign Tuesday, Feb. 15, called Climate Forests. We are calling on the Biden administration to take...
by Aaron Brakel | Jan 27, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Press Releases
Photo: Benjamin Drummond and LightHawk FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 27, 2022 Seattle, WA — U.S.-based conservation groups welcome the Jan. 19 news of a great win resolving the threat of B.C. mining in the so-called “Donut Hole” of the Upper Skagit River, that flows...
by Lauren Cusimano | Jan 13, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Press Releases
JUNEAU (Tlingit: Aakʼw Ḵwáan Lands) — Last fall, the Biden administration opened a public process to restore Roadless Rule protections on the Tongass. Since, Southeast Alaskans have been generating massive displays of support from regional and national stakeholders to...
by Lauren Cusimano | Nov 18, 2021 | Featured, Press Releases
JUNEAU (Tlingit: Aakʼw Ḵwáan Lands) — The United States Department of Agriculture announced today that the long-awaited 60-day public process restoring the national Roadless Rule to the Tongass will open on Tuesday, November 23. During the 60-day comment period, the...
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...
