After a few hours of skiing through deep snow, Forest Wagner and I smelled a tuna sandwich. We knew we were closing in on warm pools of water. From the frozen Kanuti River, we moved along an open ...
Author Ben Weissenbach tagged along with a trio of adventurer/scientists to document the changes since John McPhee’s classic ...
In June 2024, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) blocked a proposal to construct a 211-mile road through Alaska’s famed Brooks Range. The project, known as the Ambler Road, would have given mining ...
A proposed road that would have stretched 211 miles through the Brooks Range of Alaska to access a copper deposit worth an estimated $7.5 billion has been officially blocked by the Bureau of Land ...
Washington, D.C. — The Brooks Range in northwest Alaska is one of the most remote and pristine mountain regions in the country, but it’s at risk of becoming an industrial mining hub that would destroy ...
Mining Road Through Alaska’s Brooks Range Denied Again Thanks to Outcry from Hunters and Anglers Late last week, lawmakers in Washington D.C. hashed out an annual spending bill called the National ...
President Joe Biden has the opportunity to safeguard the ecologically sensitive lands of the Brooks Range in northwest Alaska from the threat of Ambler Road—a destructive path to a speculative mine ...