1971-2021: The Northern Center celebrates 50 years protecting Northern Alaska
This year, we’re celebrating and reflecting on the Northern Alaska Environmental Center’s 50 year history. Since 1971, our organization has played a vital role in protecting Northern Alaska, and we plan to build on the compassion, adaptability, and self-reflection to...
Lasting protection for the next 60 years, and beyond
Now that 2021 is well underway, we’re starting to see the shape of the changing landscape that’s emerged since Inauguration Day – as well as what remains consistent regardless of political shifts. While a lot of work lays ahead, it might be described less like...
Take Action: Comment Period Now Open on BLM’s Draft Resource Management Plan for 13 Million Acres of Alaska’s Central Yukon Area
On December 11th, the BLM opened a 90-day comment period on its Central Yukon Draft Resource Management Plan. The original 90-day comment period has been extended to 180 days, with a deadline of June 9. This plan will be used to manage an extensive region of Alaska...
Action Alert: Protect Polar Bears from Seismic Testing
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on December 8, 2020, published a proposed Marine Mammal Protection Act Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA), opening a 30-day public review and comment period. If finalized, the IHA would allow the incidental harassment, meaning...
Take Action: Comment Period Opens for BLM’s Call for Nominations for the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain
The Department of Interior on Tuesday issued a call for nominations and comments on potential oil and gas lease sale tracts which BLM delineated across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain. This move opens a 30-day comment period and precedes a...Love Is The Way
Love is the Way brings together the voices speaking in defense of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, highlighting the generations of stewardship by Gwich’in and Iñupiaq people. Inspired in part by footage of the late photographer Michio Hoshino, this film explores the friendships, values, and stories shaped by the place, and the strong commitments to its protection. As the Trump administration pushes a decades-old political agenda, this film reminds us of the sacred connections between us, and the ways that a place can teach us how to live with respect and compassion.
Paving Tundra
Ambler mining road would disrupt the Western Arctic Caribou migration, cross over 2,000 rivers & streams, interfere with subsistence lifestyles of rural Alaskans, & cross through @GatesArcticNPS. Sound like a bad idea? We think so too.
Take Action: Seismic testing does not belong on the coastal plain.
Last Friday, Kaktovik Iñupiat Corporation submitted an application to conduct winter seismic testing in the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge. The application names SAExploration, the Houston-based company embroiled in a seemingly endless string of scandals, as the...