Skijoring & Dog Sledding Across Alaska with Brian Okonek – Nov 12

Alaska Quiet Rights Coalition invites you to spend the evening exploring Alaska’s Northcountry with Brian Okonek–wilderness guide, adventurer and photographer.   Presentation: Skijoring & Dog Sledding Across Alaska with Brian Okonek Date: November 12, 2010 Location: Loussac Library’s Wilda Marston Theatre  in Anchorage Time: 7:00-9:00 pm This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will […]

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Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame Calls for Nominations – Nov 1

Celebrate an outstanding Alaskan woman by nominating her for induction into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame!  Nominees are those Alaskan women whose contributions, in any and all fields and endeavors, have influenced the direction of Alaska. Nominations are due November 1, 2010.  To see who has been inducted in previous years, review eligibility requirements and […]

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Sitka Conservation Society Receives National Wilderness Award

Bob Marshall was a hero for wilderness, especially Alaskan wilderness.  As an early head of  Recreation Management with the Forest Service in the 1930s, Marshall was one of the first to suggest that primitive and unconfined lands needed to be protected for the future.  Along with other fathers of conservation like Aldo Leopold, he helped […]

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“We Live by the River” Premieres at Toronto Film Fest

When their wildlife, lands and waters were contaminated by military, mining and municipal waster, the indigenous nations of the Yukon River basin in Canada and Alaska joined forces to protect and heal the watershed. A team of filmmakers followed their journey, which resulted in a series of films including “We Live by the River,” the […]

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SOUL Training for Trainers – Sept 15

As part of ACF’s Community Capacity initiative, ACF is sponsoring staff from the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) program to experience SOUL’s facilitator training that uses popular education and community organizing techniques. Since 1996, the School of Unity & Liberation (SOUL) has trained more than 6,000 youth and community organizers, educators, and activists in radical […]

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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Photo Contest – Deadline Sept 15

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge through photography! Enter and get your image(s) published in a 2011 calendar that will celebrate 50 years of Arctic Refuge Wilderness as it looks forward to the next 50 – 500 years of protection as pristine special place as part of our national heritage. The […]

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ACF Sets New Grant making Record

Alaska Conservation Foundation awarded a record-breaking $4.1 million worth of grants in the year ending June 30, easily putting it among the state’s top 10 philanthropic institutions. The only public foundation in Alaska dedicated to protecting Alaska’s environment, ACF made a total of 159 grants to 62 groups across the state, from Anchorage to the […]

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