http://www.alaskacoalition.org Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:53:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Kids for Saving the Earth  Kids Arctic materials – The Mysterious Arctic; Polar Bear Project; The Heart of the Arctic http://www.alaskacoalition.org/uncategorized/western-arcticthe-reserve Mission: To preserve outstanding wildlife and wild public lands and waters in Alaska for future generations; to coordinate with organizations and businesses through national campaign strategies and grassroots education to assure lasting protection for Alaska’s national public lands and waters.  By speaking with a united ... http://www.alaskacoalition.org/uncategorized/environmental-justice The Arctic Ocean is one of the most productive, fragile, and least understood marine ecosystems in the world.  Unfortunately it is also one of the world’s most threatened marine ecosystems. Made up of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas America’s Arctic Ocean is facing accelerating and dramatic ... http://www.alaskacoalition.org/uncategorized/executive-chefs-to-highlight-use-of-wild-alaskan-salmon The Arctic is all around us. Every year, birds that begin their lives on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge journey to all 50 states and across six continents, before heading back to the Arctic, where the cycle of life begins again. The ... http://www.alaskacoalition.org/uncategorized/the-alaska-coalition It is our hope that the Obama administration will soon take decisive actions to protect Bristol Bay. The administration has acknowledged that the wild salmon fisheries of Bristol Bay are unique and contain an irreplaceable global resource. While they have recognized that recommendations to allow mineral ... http://www.alaskacoalition.org/uncategorized/arctic-national-wildlife-refuge EPA Announces Environmental Justice Video Contest: Faces of the Grassroots The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is sponsoring an environmental justice video contest that challenges amateur and professional filmmakers to create videos that capture the faces of the environmental justice movement. The Faces ... http://www.alaskacoalition.org/uncategorized/outer-continental-shelf-offshore-of-alaska-beaufort-chukchi-bering-seas We oppose the “Sealaska bill” (S. 881) which would transfer to private ownership some of the richest and most biologically productive lands in the Tongass National Forest. These lands are targeted for clearcut logging, threatening the intricate ecosystem and its small forest-dependent communities and thriving local industries. This ... http://www.alaskacoalition.org/uncategorized/the-tongass-national-forest The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is one of Alaska’s best kept secrets and one of our nation’s greatest natural treasures. The administration and Congress must work to keep important habitat areas within the Reserve protected from destructive industrial development. Over the coming months we will be working ... http://www.alaskacoalition.org/uncategorized/bureau-of-land-management-blm-lands-in-alaska