Photo: Bureau of Land Management

Alaska Coalition is a coalition of over 700 conservation, sporting, labor, and religious groups working together to protect Alaska’s wild public land. We work to safeguard the health and wildness of Alaska’s public lands from the Tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the Chugach and Tongass National Forests, the lush temperate rainforests that stretch from Kodiak to Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska. Alaska Coalition is a project of the Alaska Conservation Foundation.

We have full-time staff members in Anchorage, Alaska dedicated to monitoring and participating in the BLM's resource management planning and decision-making. It is our responsibility to help voice the needs and concerns of Alaska Natives and rural communities throughout the state. We believe BLM should adopt a balanced approach to managing all of the “multiple” uses occurring on these public lands, such as providing opportunities for a wide array of recreation and tourism activities, enhancing the traditional subsistence lifestyles of many Alaskans, and ensuring that sensitive wildlife habitat, water quality, and archaeological sites are protected from negative impacts of commercial resource development activities and off-highway vehicles.

Please contact Alaska Coalition staff for additional information and discover how we can help your community understand and respond to the BLM’s proposals.

Rachel James BLM Wildlands Coordinator Alaska Coalition rachel@alaskacoalition.org (907) 222-3766

Melissa Blair Wildlands Policy Analyst Alaska Coalition melissa@alaskacoalition.org (907) 222-1982

This page was created November 17, 2005