Audubon Alaska In the News

Arctic

• What to do about one of America's last wild places (Washington Post, October 22, 2024)
• Biden administration blocks oil, gas, and copper projects in Alaskan wilderness — here's why the moves are important (The Cool Down, May 7, 2024)
• 13 Million Acres of Alaskan Arctic Is Now Protected From Oil Drilling In The U.S. (World Animal News, April 22, 2024)
• America’s Arctic: A Remote Patch Of Oil-Rich Tundra That Teems With Migratory Birds (Living Bird magazine, Spring 2024)
• Is ConocoPhillips Looking to Expand its Controversial Arctic Oil Project? (Inside Climate News, October 27, 2023)
• Trump admin opens protected Arctic land to development (E&E News, January 4, 2021)
• Audubon Says Seismic Oil and Gas Exploration Will Scar the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Proposed Seismic Testing Would Damage Important Habitat for Nesting Birds and Denning Polar Bear (Sierra Sun Times, October 26, 2020)
• Big oil's answer to melting Arctic: cooling the ground so it can keep drilling (The Guardian, October 19, 2020)
• Alaska Natives Accuse Feds of Using Pandemic to Silence Public (Courthouse News Service, May 8, 2020)
• Another major bank comes out against ANWR development (Daily News-Miner, February 27, 2020)
• JPMorgan Chase becomes the second major US bank to drop Arctic oil financing (Arctic Today, February 26, 2020)
• The Fate of 23.8 Million Acres of Arctic Wilderness Is in Jeopardy (Sierra Magazine, January 20, 2020)
• Drilling, Climate Change Could Cause Extinctions in Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, Federal Report Says (The Weather Channel, September 17, 2019) 
• Long-Term Damage, Extinctions Likely with Arctic Refuge Drilling (Bloomberg, September 13, 2019)
• US government picks preferred Alaska oil development plan (The Middletown Press, August 26, 2019) 
• Feds take step to advance big ConocoPhillips prospect (Anchorage Daily News, August 26, 2019)
• Fight brews as Interior eyes drilling in wetlands (E&E News, December 11, 2018)

​Southeast Alaska and Tongass National Forest

• Mining Could Pollute Alaska’s Chilkat Valley. A Tribe and Local Groups Defend their Way of Life. (National Audubon Society, September 27, 2024)
• Scientists, conservationists to hold forum on proposed Juneau-Douglas second crossing (KTOO, September 20, 2024)
• New study quantifies bird transit through Chilkat Valley (KHNS, May 28, 2024)
• Report: Chilkat Valley bird habitat is of ‘global significance’ (Chilkat Valley News, May 23, 2024) 
• 5 of Alaska’s ultimate wildlife adventures (National Geographic, December 7, 2023)
• This New App Looks to the Birds to Bolster Southeast Alaska’s Economy (Audubon Magazine, Winter 2023)
• Palmer project receives permit for seismic exploration (KHNS, August 9, 2023)
• Audubon Alaska launches virtual birdwatching trail for Southeast Alaska (KSFK, July 26, 2023)
• The Southeast Alaska Birding Trail is now a mobile application (KINY, June 8, 2023)
• 12th annual Yakutat Tern Festival kicks off in June (KINY, May 12, 2023)
• 12th Annual Yakutat Tern Festival is not just for the birds (Juneau Empire, April 27, 2023)
• Biden reverses Trump again: Old growth trees in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest slated to be reprotected under Roadless Rule (The Cascadia Advocate, June 11, 2021)
• 50 Organizations Call on President Biden to Protect Tongass National Forest and Carbon-rich Forests Under U.S. Climate Commitments (April 6, 2021)
• Erring on the side of keeping every cog and wheel in the Tongass ( Anchorage Daily News, November 15, 2020)
• Legal Victory in the Tongass National Forest Goes Unchallenged by Department of Justice (Surfbirds News, October 28, 2020)
• In the Tongass, a tussel over Alaska's identity (The Christian Science Monitor, August 11, 2020)
• For Tongass projects, critics say environmental rollback could cut the public out of the process (KTOO, Public Media, July 29, 2020)
• Trump Administration's Attempt to Log Largest National Forest in US Denied by Federal Judge (Nation of Change, March 19, 2020)
• Activists take to social media as comment period for Roadless Rule draws to a close (KTOO, Public Media, December 17, 2019)
• Why is the Tongass National Forest so important? (Mother Nature Network, October 21, 2019)
• The U.S. Government Is Quietly Trying to Open Our Largest National Forest to Logging (Inside Hook Magazine, July 26, 2019)
• Roadless rule rollback would threaten Utah’s at-risk plants and animals (High Country News, July 23, 2019)

Alaska Issues and News

• AROUND ALASKA: Ketchikan Paving, Fairbanks Officers, and For the Birds! (Your Alaska Link, April 2025)
• For the Birds: Never underestimate the attraction of winged wildlife (Alaska Business Magazine, April 2025)
• Bald Eagle Rescued, Released Back Into Wild After Freezing In Fairbanks (The Weather Channel, January 18, 2025) 
• Wrangell birders tally up for 125th Christmas Bird Count (KSTK, January 7, 2025)
• Millions of Acres in Alaska Preserved After Landmark Federal BLM Decision (Your Alaska Link, August 27, 2024)
• Interior Said to Reject Industrial Road Through Alaskan Wilderness (New York Times, April 16, 2024)
• Biden set to block Ambler mining road in Alaska wilderness (Politico, April 16, 2024)
• In its 124th year, Wrangellites contribute to the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count; helping draft a census to measure bird populations (KSTK, December 28, 2023)
• Keeping people and birds safe in the air is interagency effort (Army.mil, November 15, 2023)
• Tune into Tullik’s Odyssey (Wiscasset Newspaper, August 16, 2023)
• Palmer project receives permit for seismic exploration (KHNS, August 9, 2023)
• Governor proposes land exchange for Alaska Native veterans (AP News, May 6, 2021)
• Songbirds, waterfowl, raptors and more: Birding opportunities take flight as the snow melts in Anchorage (Anchorage Daily News, April 25, 2021)
• Earth Day at 50: How America Led, Lost and Hopes to Reclaim the Environmental Movement (Inside Hook Magazine, April 22, 2020)

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