Photo by Amy Gulick

TARGET ON TONGASS: The country’s largest and wildest national forest is losing ground

LYNDA V. MAPES | Pacific NW Magazine SeattleTimes | January 4th, 2025 | Photographer: Amy Gulick

One of the world’s last-and largest- temperate rainforests may soon lose it’s protections.

(Gerrit Vyn / Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 2022)

A push for ‘global energy dominance’ puts alaska wildlands at risk

LYNDA V. MAPES | Pacific NW Magazine SeattleTimes | October 11th, 2025

Full-on extraction of oil and gas imperils one of the most undeveloped regions of the country. First published in the Seattle Times, and further placed in Sierra Magazine, and BirdNote.

 

Alaska’s $44 billion bet on natural gas

LOIS PARSHLEY | Grist Magazine | December 19th, 2025

No-bid deals, undisclosed contracts, and millions already spent: inside the wild story of the Alaska gas pipeline that will not die. First published in Grist Magazine, and further placed Alaska Beacon, Alaska Current, and Alaska Public Media statewide (npr).

 

Alaskan Tribes and Activists Are Ready to Resist Ambler Road, Again

SARAH GILMAN | Sierra Magazine | March 25th, 2025

The proposed route would slash through pristine Indigenous land. First published in Sierra Magazine.