The Alaska Wilderness League has posted a short but very powerful video that explains why it’s so important to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from energy development — especially after it’s now been revealed that oil industry spill plans are essentially worthless.
I urge you to click the full-screen setting on the player below so [...]

The Northern Alaska Environmental Center is holding a photography contest to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The images will be used in a 2011 calendar that will celebrate 50 years of Arctic Refuge Wilderness.
They welcome images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that celebrate its uniqueness as an entire, intact, [...]

Eight heartbreaking photos from the Associated Press showing seabirds literally covered in BP oil. The birds were on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island.
Despite Sarah Palin’s greed for more oil industry profits coming her way, oil drilling should never be allowed near the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for this very reason.

In the never-ending effort by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to rid the state of wolves, the department sent a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announcing the state’s intention to begin aerial shooting of wolves on Unimak Island on or about June 1, 2010. Unimak Island is part of the [...]

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of perhaps the most famous refuge in the National Wildlife Refuge System — the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And for all those in the media and on the Internet who keep getting the name wrong after all these decades: It’s not Alaska National Wildlife Refuge — [...]

News broke this week that Sarah Palin has somehow convinced Discovery Communications (The Learning Channel to be precise) to spend $1.2 million per episode for a series where Palin shows off the beauty of Alaska. Word is it will be shot in the same beautifully visual way that “Planet Earth” was shot.
Naturally this announcement brought [...]

The National Audubon Society has put out an Action Alert asking citizens to submit comments opposing the proposed land swap at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. This blog has reported many times on the proposed land swap (see posts on Sept. 15, 2008, March 25, 2009, and Sept. 29, 2009), which would lead to [...]

The blog National Parks Traveler is reporting that the state of Alaska is moving to expand their powers so they would be allowed to kill predators in national parks and preserves without prior approval from the federal government.

The matter is before the Alaska Board of Game, which convenes Friday in Fairbanks for a session [...]

The Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges have been awarded the “2010 Friends Group of the Year” award.
From the National Wildlife Refuge Association announcement:

The Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges will receive the Friends Group of the Year Award. Alaska is home to some of the largest and wildest refuges in the country. Some refuges, [...]

Vernon Byrd, of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska has won the 2010 Refuge System “Employee of the Year” award.
From the National Wildlife Refuge Association announcement:

Vernon Byrd, a biologist at Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, has been selected to receive the Refuge System Employee of the Year Award for demonstrating dedication [...]

I recently acquired a wonderful book titled “National Wildlife Refuges of Alaska: Wild Wonders, Wild Lands.” The book, which was authored by Elaine Rhode, was published back in 2003, but it can still be found on the excellent Alaska Geographic website.
Although the book is only 58 pages, it provides a wealth of superb photography and [...]

On March 25, 2009, this blog reported on the ongoing controversy regarding a land swap at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, which would lead to the construction of a $15.6 million, nine-mile gravel road through federally designated wilderness in one of the most pristine refuges in the Refuge System.
The land swap was rolled into [...]