Alaska Action Alerts

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In addition to Sierra's Alerts, be sure to check out Peg Tileston's What's Up Activist Calendar compiled on behalf of the Alaska Women’s Environmental Network (AWEN), Alaska Center for the Environment (ACE), and Alaska Conservation Alliance (ACA).

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Current Alerts

Keep the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge wild
the Alaska Board of Game recently passed a proposal that opens up the Skilak Loop area in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge to firearms hunting for wolves, lynx, and coyotes. This area has been managed to protect the wildlife for 30 years, and it should stay that way.

Protect Marine Mammals from Offshore Drilling Activities
Attend a public hearing this week and urge the National Marine Fisheries Service to adopt a plan that keeps bowhead whales and other marine mammals safe.

Stop mining in the White Mountains
BLM public input is needed for the Eastern Interior Resource Management Plan.

Alaska's Wolves need our help
Have you visited Denali this year? You may have noticed it's harder now than ever to see wolves during your visit. Park officials have confirmed that wolf sightings are at an all time low. Many people suspect the 2010 Board of Game decision to eliminate the wolf buffer as the main reason.

Get ready for winter with Energy Efficiency

Protect our largest public land: the Western Arctic
It's a mouthful but the BLM just released a new draft for the Western Arctic: National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) Integrated Activity Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (IAP/EIS).

Time and time again: Protect Izembek Wilderness!
One of the world's most critically-important resting places for migrating birds is found in the cold-water lagoons and internationally significant wetlands of Izembek National Wildlife Refuge on the Alaskan Peninsula.

Alaska Chapter Executive Committee candidate statements

Protect us from dirty coal ash

Stop DIRTY Coal
The State of Alaska and Golden Valley Electric Association are trying to open a coal plant with a misnomer. We cannot let more dirty coal enter our air.