Southeast Alaska
Is Our Home
And we’re here to protect it
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The Southeast Alaska Conservation Council is a homegrown conservation group of Southeast Alaskans fiercely fighting to protect our home: the ancient and mighty Tongass National Forest and the crisp, vibrant waters of the Inside Passage. This is our backyard. We’ve been protecting it since 1970 and continue today.
Southeast Alaska Is Under Threat, and We’re Doing Something About It
We are facing daily, hostile threats to our environment and way of life in Southeast Alaska.
Out-of-touch Alaska politicians want to repeal decades-old safeguards on the Tongass to open it up to clearcut logging and road building. National, state, and local agencies constantly propose new timber sales to clearcut the forest. The mining industry here in Alaska and across the border in Canada willfully ignores environmental regulations and tries to extract more and more minerals from the earth’s near-critical salmon-producing watersheds.
On top of it all, Alaska is on the front lines of climate change, warming twice as fast as the rest of the country.
All of this threatens the 35 communities that make up Southeast Alaska.
We are commercial fishermen. We are hikers and kayakers. We are small business owners. We are Alaska Natives. We are hunters. We are parents, grandparents, and youth. We are family. And we are here to say enough.
To us, Southeast Alaska, though beautiful, is not just pretty scenery. It is where we live, work, and play. We rely on this living forest and its waterways for food, jobs, clean air, and water.
SEACC has galvanized our supporters into action to successfully protect this place for over 50 years. We are a truly grassroots advocacy nonprofit organization, supported by the members who work with us to take action. We use our collective regional voice — united by the love of this special place — to win in the courtroom, to watchdog harmful industries, and to advocate for laws that point us toward a more sustainable future.
We are Southeast Alaskans: this is our home. And we’re not going anywhere.
What We’re Working On
Tongass National Forest
With its ancient, towering trees and pristine waterways teeming with salmon, the lush Tongass National Forest spans Southeast Alaska’s panhandle and is the largest national forest in the United States. We work to protect, restore and honor this living temperate rainforest — traditional homelands of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian peoples — that drives our region’s economy and sustains us with food, jobs, and clean air and water.
Inside Passage Waters
Southeast Alaska is as much water as it is land. Here, the interconnected web of the Inside Passage is home to lush wild salmon rivers and immense watersheds that feed the trees of the Tongass and the oceans of the world. It is a place teeming with biodiversity — from whales and wolves, to eagles, deer and bears, to salmon and communities.
Grassroots Community Organizing
Happening Now
Say no to Niblack
Niblack Spectre Rises Again Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources Division of Mining, Land and Water has received an application for the renewal of the Niblack Project Reclamation Plan Approval. While that sounds like progress to close a rather problematic mine that has left environmental scars...
A $677 million public road project that benefits who?
“Up to $600 million in federal transportation funding could be at risk after Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed $62 million in state match funding, Alaska House Transportation Committee members said during a hearing this week.” That’s the start to an Anchorage Daily News article published on Friday. A big...
Greetings from Washington, D.C.: Lobbying for the Tongass
Things are happening fast. Early this week, a group of us from Southeast Alaska headed to the nation’s capital to lobby against the proposed sale of public lands, but we’ve had to pivot since hearing about Senator Mike Lee’s plans to revise his sell-off (as hard as you all have worked to let...
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Say no to Niblack
Niblack Spectre Rises Again Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources Division of Mining, Land and Water has received an application for the renewal of the Niblack Project Reclamation Plan Approval. While that sounds like progress to close a rather problematic mine that has left environmental scars...
Tell your Tongass tale
Telling stories is essential to advocacy and we need your stories. You're here, so you care about the Tongass — do you have a story about the Tongass? About your experiences sheltered by old growth? About hunting or fishing or harvesting? About making art inspired by the sights and sounds? About a...
Can we make the Roadless rule Roadless law?
As expected, the Trump administration announced its plans to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule but, until a public comment period comes, all we can do is prepare and wait, right? Well, we can also tell our members of congress to support the Roadless Area Conservation Act, making Roadless...