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Bears, Eagles, and Black-Tailed Deer
Preservation of the Tongass National Forest on the panhandle of Southeast Alaska has been a major preoccupation of Earthjustice since the earliest days. Tom Turner describes how it all began.
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Recent Victories

Alaska’s Supreme Court Halts Transfer of Public Lands
Nearly a quarter-million acres of state land remain under public ownership after Alaska’s highest court held that transferring them to the University of Alaska would violate the State Constitution.
Updated: November 6, 2009

Shell-Shocked in the Arctic
An appeals court rules that Shell Offshore, Inc., must stay away from the Beaufort Sea at least through the winter of '07/08.
Updated: July 1, 2009

Arctic Wildlife Gets a New Lease on Life
Alaskan lake and surrounding area gets protection from drilling.
Updated: October 16, 2006

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Recent News

Earthjustice Responds to Timber Project in Roadless Tongass NF
The Alaska Region of the U.S. Forest Service today released a final environmental impact statement for the Central...

EPA Takes First Step In Closing Mining Cleanup Loophole
Mining companies may soon have to clean up their act, now that the U.S. Environmental Protect Agency has taken a first...

Shell Oil Proposes New Arctic Ocean Drilling Plan
Alaska Native and conservation groups today cheered the end of a successful legal challenge that stopped Shell Oil from...

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Recent Cases

University of Alaska Lands
This case challenges the constitutionality of Alaska state legislation, passed in 2005, that grants over 250,000 acres of...

Orion North Timber Sale
The Orion North timber sale would clearcut the heart of the last major roadless watershed in Thorne Arm, on Revillagigedo...

Oil and Gas Lease Sale in the Chukchi Sea
Alaska's Chukchi Sea provides vital habitat for polar bears, endangered bowhead whales, walrus, beluga whales, seals, fish...

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