by Beth Holmes | Feb 6, 2023 | Conservation, Resources, Sustainability
Logging roads are banned in the Tongass National Forest as the Biden administration restores protections cut by former President Trump. Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in America, and has been the center of decades of fighting...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 13, 2022 | Conservation, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Three oil companies have canceled their leases to take oil from Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), according to the Bureau of Land Management. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a 19.3-million-acre area that occupies the entire northeastern...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 25, 2022 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Arctic bases are struggling to deal with a major threat – sunny spring days. The United States has six arctic bases: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Clear Space Force Station, Eielson Air Force Base, Fort Wainright, and Fort Greely in Alaska, and Thule Air Base on...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 23, 2021 | Conservation, Resources, Sustainability
ConocoPhillips’ large oil drilling project in Alaska has been blocked by a federal judge, after approval by both the Biden and Trump administrations. The oil drilling project by oil giant ConocoPhillips, slated for Alaska’s North Slope, would potentially...
by Admin | Aug 30, 2017 | Climate Change, Conservation
There’s no more iconic a predator-prey relationship than that of bears and salmon. Typically, brown bears on Kodiak Island in Alaska feed on sockeye salmon as they swim upstream to spawn. But things are different these days. Red elderberries, another integral part of...
