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Alaska
The Nature Conservancy in Alaska’s growing public policy team celebrated a significant win for Alaska’s emerging renewable energy sector following the close of Alaska’s 2024 legislative session.
Jan 21, 2025
The Emerald Edge Network seeks to realize Indigenous-led and ally-supported land and water stewardship.
Jan 08, 2025
Salmon are inextricably linked to our way of life, the health of our natural systems and communities across the West. Protecting them benefits much more than fish alone.
Aug 14, 2024
Native communities in Alaska are leading a rebirth by reclaiming Indigenous authority and restoring culture, forests and local economies.
Aug 09, 2024
Marvel at the forests, glaciers, marine diversity and abundant wildlife that distinguish "The Last Frontier” of the U.S.
Aug 05, 2024
Explore our view on issues that matter in the 49th State.
Learn more about a few of Alaska’s cute critters and how TNC Alaska is working on behalf of the state’s people and animals to preserve this wild, wonderful place.
Sep 29, 2023
Alaskan artist Linda Infante Lyons brings local people, wildlife and cultural iconography into her work.
Jul 18, 2023
We've partnered to help support Indigenous-led conservation across two million acres in the Tongass Rainforest of Southeast Alaska.
Apr 01, 2023
Holthaus connects diverse women leaders to generate collaborative solutions to the climate crisis.
By Amy Crawford | Feb 24, 2023
Burgess is helping TNC bring more women from Indigenous and local communities into decision-making roles in conservation.
By Ilima Loomis | Feb 24, 2023
Protecting key lands and waters, restoring important systems and implementing climate-smart practices are critical strategies for slowing climate change.
Jan 17, 2023
Between the mountains and the sea, Bristol Bay, Alaska, has always ranked as a place of remarkable natural abundance. Its wild salmon number in the tens of millions, more than anywhere else on Earth.
Nov 18, 2022
In this remarkable forest that stretches from Oregon into Alaska, Indigenous Peoples and local communities are leading the way in showing that conservation and climate action can be done differently.
Oct 26, 2022
In Alaska's Bristol Bay, questions about the future and how to navigate a changing world share a common thread: The next generation will need to be ready.
Aug 22, 2022
TNC and several regional partners are co-creating a new permanent funding mechanism, the Seacoast Trust, to fully support and expand Indigenous-led stewardship in Southeast Alaska.
Oct 31, 2021
Bristol Bay continues to be home to the most remarkable wild salmon runs on Earth. Here’s some of the slang overheard from the men and women who work on Bristol Bay’s commercial fishing boats.
Nov 16, 2020
On the edge of Alaska, a community weighs the future of the greatest sockeye salmon run on Earth.
By Dustin Solberg | Sep 01, 2020
Photographer Brian Adams on how he captured Bristol Bay, Alaska, during peak fishing season in 2019
Sockeye salmon have always returned to Alaska's Klawock Lake. It’s just that today, people know there are far fewer than ever before, prompting a coming together of the best in science and community will.
May 18, 2020
Meet the people of the Alaska Women's Adaptation Network and learn how they're responding to climate change in the places where they live and work.
Apr 16, 2020
After removing invasive rats, nesting seabirds returned to the Aleutian Islands–and so did the Unangan name.
Apr 01, 2020
Alaska's Hoonah Native Forest Partnership is showing how cooperation leads to new possibilities on the land.
Dec 24, 2019
A regional collective impact initiative in the mostly rural panhandle of Southeast Alaska helping to build trust, renew culture and protect nature in the Tongass National Forest.
Nov 12, 2019
To protect Bristol Bay's wild salmon populations and the people who depend on them, TNC has invested in a science-led process to assess the risk of developing the proposed Pebble mine in the headwaters of two major salmon rivers.
Learn why The Nature Conservancy is developing conservation strategies rooted in economic development for the Emerald Edge.
Jul 25, 2019
We wanted to know more about how commercial fishermen are experiencing signs of change in the places where they live and work, so we sat down to listen.
Sep 16, 2018
Learn how our business competition, Path to Prosperity, is inspiring sustainable entrepreneurs in Alaska.
TNC scientist Colin Shanley shows us Alaskans' devotion to wild salmon.
