Eyak Preservation Council

Advocacy

Habitat Protection

Through advocacy, public process, monitoring, community involvement and activism EPC works to stop unsustainable development while encouraging conservation alternatives to natural resource extraction and legislation that permanently protects the region. Dune Lankard also uses his Native status as Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act shareholder (ANCSA, 1971), and as a traditional tribal member, to challenge irresponsible Native Corporate practices. In 2005, Dune Lankard’s shareholder actions were specifically cited by Chugach Alaska Corporation as part of their decision not to pursue drilling on 10,000 acres at Katalla. In 1998 Dune Lankard led a successful campaign to defeat the Chugach Road Rider, introduced by Congressman Don Young, thereby preventing a $55 million (est.) road project across the Copper River Delta wilderness. And in 1995, Dune Lankard led a precedent setting Eyak Corporation Shareholder vote (87%) for conservation, protecting 75,000 acres of Alaska rainforest, ultimately leading to permanent protection of nearly 700,000 acres of habitat in Prince William Sound.

Understanding the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act is important when dealing with environmental and cultural issues in Alaska. To learn more about the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, visit www.lbblawyers.com/ancsa.htm.

Critical Campaigns

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Litigation

EPC utilizes litigation when appropriate to challenge agency process, and, foreign, domestic and Native corporate practice. EPC is currently pursuing a legal and legislative strategy to stop the Korea Alaska Development Corporation from mining coal via mountain top removal in a pristine, culturally significant and environmentally sensitive area on the Copper River Delta. As part of this, EPC is working to explore cutting edge concepts such as utilization of carbon credits to reach conservation minded alternatives to development of this wilderness. Past legal successes include a 1995 Alaska Supreme Court ruling granting public interest litigant status to the Eyak Nation, setting state-wide precedent for the protection of the rights of Native shareholders within their own Native (ANCSA, 1971) corporations.

Grassroots Organizing

Our grassroots network extends from the Copper River Delta across Alaska and the lower 48 and is actively engaged on issues from wild salmon habitat protection to preventing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. EPC works continually to inform, inspire and mobilize diverse people on the grassroots level to identify the common values that can change the world and win concrete protections and improvements for the environment and society. This includes understanding the interests and needs of diverse groups and helping them gain a sense of their own power and the value of united action.

Eyak Preservation Council, Post Office Box 460, Cordova, AK 99574

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Home Habitat Protection Critical Campaigns Litigation Grassroots Organizing "This is a historic moment in which we either complete the work of protecting this glorious land or see the work of past generations and the needs of future generations come to naught." -Gifford Pinchot III Chairman, Bainbridge Graduate Institute	Advocacy Habitat Protection Through advocacy, public process, monitoring, community involvement and activism EPC works to stop unsustainable development while encouraging conservation alternatives to natural resource extraction and legislation that permanently protects the region. Dune Lankard also uses his Native status as Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act shareholder (ANCSA, 1971), and as a traditional tribal member, to challenge irresponsible Native Corporate practices. In 2005, Dune Lankard’s shareholder actions were specifically cited by Chugach Alaska Corporation as part of their decision not to pursue drilling on 10,000 acres at Katalla. In 1998 Dune Lankard led a successful campaign to defeat the Chugach Road Rider, introduced by Congressman Don Young, thereby preventing a $55 million (est.) road project across the Copper River Delta wilderness. And in 1995, Dune Lankard led a precedent setting Eyak Corporation Shareholder vote (87%) for conservation, protecting 75,000 acres of Alaska rainforest, ultimately leading to permanent protection of nearly 700,000 acres of habitat in Prince William Sound. Understanding the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act is important when dealing with environmental and cultural issues in Alaska. To learn more about the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, visit www.lbblawyers.com/ancsa.htm. Critical Campaigns Click below for more information... Bering River Shepard Point Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Katalla Litigation EPC utilizes litigation when appropriate to challenge agency process, and, foreign, domestic and Native corporate practice. EPC is currently pursuing a legal and legislative strategy to stop the Korea Alaska Development Corporation from mining coal via mountain top removal in a pristine, culturally significant and environmentally sensitive area on the Copper River Delta. As part of this, EPC is working to explore cutting edge concepts such as utilization of carbon credits to reach conservation minded alternatives to development of this wilderness. Past legal successes include a 1995 Alaska Supreme Court ruling granting public interest litigant status to the Eyak Nation, setting state-wide precedent for the protection of the rights of Native shareholders within their own Native (ANCSA, 1971) corporations. Grassroots Organizing Our grassroots network extends from the Copper River Delta across Alaska and the lower 48 and is actively engaged on issues from wild salmon habitat protection to preventing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. EPC works continually to inform, inspire and mobilize diverse people on the grassroots level to identify the common values that can change the world and win concrete protections and improvements for the environment and society. This includes understanding the interests and needs of diverse groups and helping them gain a sense of their own power and the value of united action. Top of Page
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