The Alaska Coalition is a powerful network of businesses, conservation, sporting, labor and religious groups that work to keep Alaska’s wild places protected for future generations. We strive
to safeguard Alaska’s wilderness from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in the north, to the temperate rainforests along the Pacific coast of southeast Alaska. The Alaska Coalition was originally founded in the 1970s as a key player in the effort to pass the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act which established over 100 million acres of new parks and refuges and nearly doubled the size of the American Wilderness system overnight. Today the Alaska Coalition continues to work across the country to ensure that American’s voices are heard. Over the past 30 years we have recruited a diverse group of coalition members representing national and local interests from Alaska to Florida and Maine to Hawaii. Specifically we are working to:
1. Defend the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska and the Arctic Ocean, the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, off Alaska’s shore from oil drilling and to permanently preserve the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge as wilderness.
2. Collaborate with partners to conserve and restore the Tongass National Forest.
3. Maintain the integrity of the conservation system established by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) of 1980 (Bureau of Land Management Lands; parks and preserves; refuges; wild and scenic rivers; and national forest wildlands and wilderness).
4. Honor the human rights and traditional values of indigenous and other communities in Alaska by protecting critical areas for future generations and by fostering the meaningful participation of people from these communities in government decision making.
The Alaska Coalition is fighting to keep these places wild so that they can be enjoyed by all Americans… but we need your help. For more information, contact Anna Peterson, Alaska Coalition Coordinator at 970-764-4179 or at anna(at)alaskawild.org.
