Photos by Jacob Ritley, Cascadia Wildlands’ Tongass Groundtruth Expedition, 2016. Thanks to LUSH Foundation for their generous support. Southeast Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago is made up of thousands of islands large and … Continue reading Tongass Groundtruth Expedition: 2016
Cascadia Wildlands Leads Ground-truth Expedition into Fabled Tongass National Forest
by Alaska Legal Director Gabe Scott [updated 9/8/16] TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST, ALASKA— Lots to report from our ground-truthing trek last week into Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. We spent a week on … Continue reading Cascadia Wildlands Leads Ground-truth Expedition into Fabled Tongass National Forest
Lawsuit Challenges Alaska Road Project from Ketchikan to Shelter Cove
For Immediate Release, April 14, 2016 Contact: Larry Edwards, Greenpeace, (907) 747-7557, larry.edwards@greenpeace.org Gabe Scott, Cascadia Wildlands, (907) 491-0856, gscott@cascwild.org Dune Lankard, Center for Biological Diversity, (907) 952-5265, … Continue reading Lawsuit Challenges Alaska Road Project from Ketchikan to Shelter Cove
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Effort to Overturn Tongass National Forest Protections
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 29, 2016 CONTACTS Gabe Scott | Cascadia Wildlands | gscott@cascwild.org | (907) 491-0856 Tom Waldo | Earthjustice | twaldo@earthjustice.org | (907) 500‐7123 Niel Lawrence | Natural … Continue reading U.S. Supreme Court Denies Effort to Overturn Tongass National Forest Protections
Lawsuit Challenges Plan to Log Old-growth in Alaska
Cascadia Wildlands yesterday filed suit against the Forest Service challenging approval of the Mitkof Island timber sale, a 4,117-acre old-growth logging project on the Tongass National Forest, near Petersburg in Southeast … Continue reading Lawsuit Challenges Plan to Log Old-growth in Alaska
Thermal Damns and the Need for Angry, Active Anglers
Bob Ferris Recently I posted something on Facebook about the peril faced by marine fish species in British Columbia due to record ocean temperatures (see Record North Pacific Temperatures … Continue reading Thermal Damns and the Need for Angry, Active Anglers
WTF?!
By Gabe Scott Cascadia Wildlands filed a lawsuit today to stop the U.S. Forest Service’s Big Thorne timber project on Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska. Big Thorne … Continue reading WTF?!
Paranoia Strikes the Deep: Our Oceans’ Bad Acid Trip
By Bob Ferris I grew to semi-adulthood in the 1960s deep in the shadow of The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane-energized Bay Area. How deep? Well Santana played as … Continue reading Paranoia Strikes the Deep: Our Oceans’ Bad Acid Trip
Delusions of grandeur on the Tongass
By Gabe Scott, Alaska Field Director CORDOVA, AK—Big plans are in the works on Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the nation’s largest. It seems everyone has some grand scheme in mind … Continue reading Delusions of grandeur on the Tongass
Crony Capitalism on the Tongass
by Gabe Scott Where is the Tea Party when we need them? I’ve been spending a lot of time lately with two thick Environmental Impact Statements — for the Tonka … Continue reading Crony Capitalism on the Tongass