The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this summer it was moving to rescind the Roadless Rule, a 2001 law that protects large swaths of National Forest land from development.
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Trump administration terminates University of Alaska grants for Alaska Native, Indigenous students
University of Alaska Fairbanks Chancellor Mike Sfraga said the funding cuts “will have a substantial and negative impact on a large number of Alaskans, including our Alaska Native students.”
‘Always in our hearts’: September is an important month for boarding school survivors
The National Day of Remembrance coincides with Congressional consideration of the boarding school healing bill.
How will Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” impact Alaskans? It’s hard to say.
President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that passed in July will likely have sprawling impacts to Alaska, but because of the way the nearly one thousand page bill was written, it’s hard to make specific predictions.
Nonprofit coordinating Arctic research will shut down as federal funding dries up
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, which brings together academics from universities and government agencies, plans to close its doors.
The Roadless Rule is on the chopping block, and the public has less than a month to comment on it
At the Southeast Tribal Environmental Forum in Juneau this week, tribes and environmental groups discussed strategies to keep the rule in place.