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The Willow Master Development Plan is a proposal by ConocoPhillips to build up to five drill sites (with up to 50 wells each!), a processing facility, gravel roads, pipelines, and a mine, all in Alaska’s Western Arctic. Why is this a problem? The proposed project is MASSIVE, and will have enormous impacts on wildlife, waterways, food access, and human health. …
Last year, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game lifted all harvest limits for the wolf trapping season on and around Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest. The result? 97% of the wolf population was killed in the 2019-2020 trapping season, some 165 wolves. If the quota had remained in place, only 34 wolves would have legally …
Kenai Fjords National Park.. where mountains, ice and ocean meet. This national park covers over 1,000 square miles of the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska, and contains the Harding Icefield, from which over 40 glaciers flow! The park gets its name from the numerous fjords these glaciers form as they flow from icefield to sea. Though the park is over …
Did you know that Wrangell-St Elias National Park is six times bigger than Yellowstone? At 13.2 million acres, America’s largest national park is HUGE! Four major mountain ranges converge in this wilderness, and the park boasts peaks up to 18,000 feet tall. Wrangell is also home to the country’s largest glacier system (35% of the park is glacier!), and North …
We’re midway through National Park Week, and today we are celebrating Katmai National Park! Located in southern Alaska, this park is famous for the highly volcanic Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and, of course, it’s sockeye salmon and the brown bears who feed on them. Katmai is home to the world’s largest protected brown bear population; an estimated 2,200 …
Today for National Park Week we are highlighting Denali National Park! Home not only to North America’s tallest mountain, Denali also miles of tundra, boreal forest, glaciers, and yes, a whole lot of wildlife. While over 39 species of mammals are in the park, the “Big Five” take the spotlight: moose, caribou, dall sheep, grizzly bears, and wolves. Many …
Happy National Park Week! To celebrate, AFW will be highlighting an Alaskan national park every day this week, starting with the northernmost national park in the United States.. Gates of the Arctic! Located entirely above the Arctic Circle, Gates NP is home to six national wild rivers, as well as a large portion of the Brooks Range. The park …
Check out this amazing Rewilding Podcast episode with Kirk Robinson, the founder and executive director of the Western Wildlife Conservancy. Kirk talks about resourcism vs. ecosystem resilience, who really pays the most for conservation programs on state lands, and the extreme bias of wildlife boards towards hunting. Check out the podcast episode HERE!
Alberta, Canada has been poisoning its wolves since 2005 as part of their “caribou recovery strategy”. The International Fund for Animal Wildlife recently supported a study on the public acceptability of predator control in Alberta, and found that only 4% of people accept the use of strychnine poison to kill wolves. There was little evidence of a “rural / urban …
Climate change has been wreaking havoc on sea ice these past years, reaching yet another minimum extent in October 2019. Numerous species rely on sea ice but none more so than polar bears, who use the ice to hunt ringed seals, to travel, find mates, and raise their cubs. With the shrinking sea ice, polar bears have been forced to spend …