October 24, 2009: Click on the thumbnail above for a high-resolution version of this panoramic image. For a high-resolution wide-angle shot, CLICK HERE.
August 11, 2009 - According to the Anchorage Daily News, "the Alaska Legislature voted Monday to override former Gov. Sarah Palin's veto of $28 million in federal stimulus money for energy cost relief. ... Supporters argued Palin badly overstated the 'strings' attached to taking the money and that frigid Alaska could use the assistance."
Several staff members from our office went to the Egan Center to observe the proceedings and encourage legislators from the sidelines in favor of energy weatherization and conservation in the state with the highest energy costs.
Alaska is one of the only states to have rejected these economic recovery funds. Rejecting this money won’t lower the deficit, the money will go to other states to invest in their future energy savings. There is a bipartisan consensus in Alaska that there are no “strings” attached to this money. Alaska has already accepted over 90% of the economic recovery funds.
Now Alaska can move forward on energy cost relief.
American Clean Energy and Security Act
June 15, 2009: Members of Congress are telling us that they need to hear more from their constituents in support of the American Clean Energy and Security Act. This is your chance to be heard on the upcoming House vote.
In Alaska’s legendary Bristol Bay watershed, an enormous open-pit mine would damage vital wildlife habitat, including the world's greatest spawning grounds for wild salmon. Bristol Bay's 40,000-square-mile watershed is studded with hundreds of miles of rivers and many hundreds of pothole lakes. These waters and the vast tundra wilderness surrounding them teem with wildlife, from eagles, terns and ducks to seals, bears, wolves, moose and tens of thousands of caribou.
Alaska's Future Will be Powered by Unlimited Clean Energy
September 29, 2008: "Oilman T. Boone Pickens said it best about our energy crisis: 'This is one emergency we can't drill our way out of.' View the COMPASS piece from Anchorage Daily News by NWF-Alaska's Director, Jim Adams.
Climate Security Act Will Benefit Alaskans
June 2008 - The Climate Security Act, cosponsored by Senators Warner (R-VA) and Lieberman (I-CT), would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70% by 2050 and invest billions in clean energy technologies. It would also help states adapt to the impacts of climate change, providing over $50 billion to Alaska in light of the disproportionate impacts of warming that we experience in the north. Read more about the Climate Security Act HERE.
NWF-Alaska Affiliates with Renewable Resources Coalition
The Renewable Resources Coalition, Alaska's leading conservation organization dedicated to protecting the clean water and wild salmon of the Bristol Bay watershed, has been selected as the Alaska affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation.
Every spring, all over Alaska, bears and fishermen wait eagerly for the state's incredible summer runs of salmon. But what about wolves? Do they fish? Check out this video taken last summer at Alaska's Katmai National Park by NPS employee Peter Hamel for the definitive answer:
Global warming may have significant impacts on some of Alaska's important salmon runs. Bears, people, and wolves will all miss them if they go. To help NWF protect salmon and fight global warming, go to www.nwf.org/globalwarming/. To learn about wolves, visit www.nwf.org/graywolf/
Alaska Women's Environmental Network
The Alaska Natural Resource Center is proud to announce that the Alaska Women's Environmental Network (AWEN), a program begun in our office in 1994 to support women in developing their leadership abilities in the conservation field, has recently been granted its own 501(c)(3) status by the IRS. The AWEN mission is to establish and maintain a statewide network of women dedicated to conserving Alaska's natural heritage through outreach, education and public service.
AWEN has a long term strategic plan and has been active in organizing outreach events, including a summer lecture series on "Women's Health and the Environment," "The Future of Recycling in Anchorage," "Leave No Trace: Backcountry Ethics" seminar, discussion about Wildfire at the Campbell Creek Science Center, lecture on “Rain Gardens in Anchorage."
Current Projects include Linking up with Women in Rural Alaska to establish solid connections between the "urban core" of AWEN and women in rural Alaska, including a recent partnership with Mothers for Alaska. For more information, visit http://www.awenalaska.org/.
Alaska
Alaska is a place of enormous natural beauty and unequaled wildness. Vast and pristine, Alaska contains 85 percent of America's national wildlife refuge lands, 70 percent of its national parklands, 63 percent of its wetlands, the loftiest mountain in North America, and more coastline than the Lower 48 states combined. In Alaska, great herds of caribou still follow ancient migration paths, bears grow to be 10 feet tall, and wild salmon spawn and die in glacier-fed rivers as they have for thousands of years. National Wildlife Federation's Alaska Natural Resource Center is committed to protecting Alaska's wildlife and wild places for our children and grandchildren.
Working in partnership with concerned citizens, grassroots groups, and communities, we work to find responsible, long-term solutions to environmental problems while building a broader, more diverse statewide constituency for conservation. We also offer the innovative program Alaska Youth for Environmental Action, designed to help youth become stronger, more effective environmental leaders.
The Alaska Natural Resource Center is located in downtown Anchorage with views of beautiful Cook Inlet. If you would like to learn more about Alaska, see the SLED FAQ Alaska. If you would like more information about our programs, click on each campaign link to the right and then e-mail mcg...@nwf.org with suggestions for our website [click on the ...]
Known as the Great Land, Alaska is the largest state in the union (570,373.6 sq mi), more than twice the size of Texas with only 1/33 its population — 1/5 the size of the contiguous 48
80% of U.S. National Wildlife Refuge land — 76 million acres — is in Alaska
64% of the nation’s National Park land — 54 million acres — is in Alaska
The nation’s 2 largest National Forests are in Alaska
6-7,000 wolves roam Alaska, as do 98% of the U.S. brown bears (grizzlies)
Alaska has nearly 2/3 of the nation's wetlands
4 major flyways converge in Alaska and 10 million ducks, 750,000 geese, and 80,000 swans nest here
12 species of waterfowl nest nowhere else in America
80% of the world's trumpeter swans and 50% of the world's tundra swans nest in Alaska’s wetlands
CONTACT US:
Alaska Regional Center 750 West 2nd Ave, Suite 200 Anchorage, AK 99501 Phone: 907-339-3900 Fax: 907-339-3980 http://online.nwf.org/alaska
The Renewable Resources Coalition, Alaska's leading conservation organization dedicated to protecting the clean water and wild salmon of the Bristol Bay watershed, has been selected as the Alaska affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation.
The Alaska Natural Resource Center is proud to announce that the Alaska Women's Environmental Network (AWEN), a program begun in our office in 1994 to support women in developing their leadership abilities in the conservation field, has recently been granted its own 501(c)(3) status by the IRS. The AWEN mission is to establish and maintain a statewide network of women dedicated to conserving Alaska's natural heritage through outreach, education and public service.
Alaska is a place of enormous natural beauty and unequaled wildness. Vast and pristine, Alaska contains 85 percent of America's national wildlife refuge lands, 70 percent of its national parklands, 63 percent of its wetlands, the loftiest mountain in North America, and more coastline than the Lower 48 states combined. In Alaska, great herds of caribou still follow ancient migration paths, bears grow to be 10 feet tall, and wild salmon spawn and die in glacier-fed rivers as they have for thousands of years. National Wildlife Federation's Alaska Natural Resource Center is committed to protecting Alaska's wildlife and wild places for our children and grandchildren.
Working in partnership with concerned citizens, grassroots groups, and communities, we work to find responsible, long-term solutions to environmental problems while building a broader, more diverse statewide constituency for conservation. We also offer the innovative program 
