Causes: Environment

Mission: Trustees for Alaska is a nonprofit public interest environmental law firm working to protect and sustain Alaska's most valuable assets -- its lands, waters, wildlife, and people. We provide legal counsel to diverse constituencies, free-of-charge, on the major environmental policy issues facing Alaska. We work on behalf of community and citizen groups, Native villages, statewide coalitions, local and national conservation groups, hunting and fishing groups, and individual Alaskans, clients that could not otherwise access or afford legal counsel to address a public interest environmental issue.

Results: Established in 1974, Trustees for Alaska has defended Alaska most vulnerable assets from a variety of threats for four decades. Highlights from our legal work include: protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil and gas development, ensuring governmental agencies follow established natural resources rules for development, listing the Cook Inlet beluga whale as a threatened species, and protecting the world's largest remaining wild salmon fishery in Bristol Bay from mining threats.

Target demographics: People who want Alaska's natural assets protected.

Geographic areas served: Alaska

Programs: We provide legal counsel in five key programmatic areas: America's Arctic, Climate Change, Clean Air and Water, Wildlands and Wildlife, and Marine Environments.