by Meredith Trainor | Oct 1, 2021 | Blog, Featured
This weekend we’re celebrating two incredible, hard-working female leaders at SEACC — outgoing board chair Katie Ione Craney and incoming board chair Natalie Watson! Katie Craney joined the SEACC board in 2019 and stepped into the board chair role after the departure...
by Katie Rooks | Sep 28, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Tongass
On July 15, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would set up a new team to consult with Tribal governments and Alaska Native corporations, and work with regional stakeholders to allocate up to $25 million of funding — emphasizing examples of integrated...
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 SEACC | Jul 7, 2021 | Elementary Poetry
Wet cold and fun A fun time to boat Time to have a great time Existing for a new person Rivers lakes creeks
by SEACC | Jul 7, 2021 | Middle School Poetry
Septic tanks they’re smelly and dank and let out a mighty stank. Yet throughout Southeast Alaska millions of turds are released into the sea every day. From the month of May to next years May we pollute the water all day. Mighty turds flowing without the sea creatures...
by SEACC | Jul 7, 2021 | 18 Older Poetry
The salty, glacial water of Southeast is both merciful and merciless It can gently caress you, carrying you down the channel as you bask under the sun And in the same day, it can take the lives of many through a furious storm It has taught me how to use my...
