by GSACC board member Natalie Dawson “When you spend much time on islands with naturalists you will tend to hear two words in particular an awful lot: ‘endemic’ and ‘exotic’. Three if you count ‘disaster’. An ‘endemic’ species of plant or animal is one that is native to an island or region and is found […]

On August 16, GSACC and four other organizations filed an administrative appeal of the Tongass Forest Supervisor’s decision to proceed with the Big Thorne timber project.  The appeal went to to the next highest level in the agency, Regional Forester Beth Pendleton.  The appeal is known as Cascadia Wildlands et al. (2013), and other co-appellants […]

By Richard Carstensen EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Regional Native Corporation in Southeast Alaska (Sealaska Corp.) is seeking Congressional legislation that would change the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA 1971) to allow selection of new lands for logging. Through the proposed legislation (Senate Bill 340), Sealaska would select 68,715 acres of land from […]

  By Joseph R. Mehrkens (retired USFS economist)    Last revised: 4/20/2013 This paper is designed as a briefing paper.  Future revisions and additions will periodically occur.  It will be available on the Greater Southeast Alaska Conservation Community website gsacc.net.  It is the sole product of J.R. Mehrkens and is based primarily on Tongass information […]

    The Greater Southeast Alaska Conservation Community (GSACC) is a regional grassroots conservation organization dedicated to the protection of healthy, fully functioning forests, lands and waters of Southeast Alaska. As such, GSACC unequivocally opposes HR.740/ S.340, the “Southeast Alaska Native Lands Finalization and Jobs Protection Act.” Our opposition is based in that HR.740/ S.340, […]