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EPC Conservation Community Members

The conservation community with whom we conduct much of our work consists of the following organizations:

Eyak Preservation Council helped form a new environmental coalition - the Prince William Sound Alliance (PWSA). This group is comprised of:

• National Wildlife Federation Alaska Chapter: NWF is working to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, preserve the Copper River Delta, and continue restoration and protection of Prince William Sound.



• The Sierra Club Alaska Office: SC is a national, nonprofit organization with over 550,000 members dedicated to exploring, enjoying, and protecting the wild places of the earth; to practicing and promoting the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; to educating and enlisting humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to using all lawful means to carry out these objectives. SC plays an integral role in building grassroots support for permanent protection of the Delta and developing a political strategy to reach that objective.



• The Wilderness Society Alaska: TWS, founded in 1935, is a nonprofit membership organization devoted to preserving wilderness and wildlife, protecting America's prime forests, parks, rivers, deserts, and shorelines, and fostering an American land ethic. TWS has lead the Coalition's efforts to produce an economic analysis of Chugach Alaska Corporation's road building and timber project, and plays an important role in building public awareness of the Delta and the need to permanently protect the area. See their Chugach page
  
  


• The Audubon Society: PWSAS is a non-profit, regional chapter of the National Audubon Society that encompasses Prince William Sound and the Copper River Delta. PWSAS's mission is to facilitate education, conservation, and restoration of the natural ecosystems of Prince William Sound and the Copper River Delta, focusing on birds and other wildlife.



• National Outdoor Leadership School, Alaska Chapter



• Trustees for Alaska is a public interest law firm whose mission is to provide legal counsel to sustain and protect Alaska's natural environment. We represent local and national environmental groups, Alaska Native villages and nonprofit organizations, community groups, hunters, fishers and others where the outcome of our advocacy could benefit Alaska's environment.



• Alaska Center For the Environment: ACE is a non-profit environmental advocacy and education organization dedicated to the conservation of Alaska's natural resources. Since 1971 ACE has worked to promote sound environmental policy and programs in the southcentral Alaska area and statewide.



• Coastal Coalition CC is dedicated to habitat protection, restoration, and economic sustainability in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill (with a particular interest in the Prince William Sound and Copper River Delta ecosystem). CC is the liaison between the regional and national environmental organizations and the community of Cordova. It prepares press releases, essays and articles, lobbies in Juneau, Alaska and Washington, D.C., and is the Delta Coalition's field guide in the Copper River Delta watershed. (contact: Rick Steiner afrgs@uaa.alaska.edu)



• and EPC, who is the liaison between the Delta Coalition and the native people of the Delta.

The Prince William Sound Alliance concentrates on all environmental issues facing Prince William Sound, including cruise ships, oil tankers, fishery and wildlife conservation issues, and social impact issues on the Sound's resources.

We also helped form the Copper River Delta Coalition, a coalition of local, regional, and national environmental and Native organizations formed to protect the Copper River Delta.

• National Wildlife Federation


• Wilderness Society


• Sierra Club


• Coastal Coalition


• Prince William Sound Audubon Society


• Trustees For Alaska


• and EPC

Other groups in our circle include:

The Copper River Watershed Project: provides residents with a forum to consider and implement innovative approaches for acheiving balance between a diverse economy and healthy ecosystems while maintaining our quality of life and cultural heritage.

The Alaska Conservation Alliance (ACA) is a statewide coalition of 45 conservation groups & businesses representing over 35,000 individual members. ACA is the only statewide forum that unites the Alaska conservation community for maximum impact and effectiveness.

The Alaska Rainforest Campaign: ARC is a coalition of national and Alaska conservation groups that work to protect the remaining wildlands of the Tongass and Chugach National Forests from clearcutting and other harmful development.

Further Links				Resources
Tidepool, a project of Ecotrust, is a daily eco-news service, updated every weekday by nine a.m. with the best news stories collected from more than two dozen on-line news sources. Our goal is to provide the Bioregional community with a daily source of the news they need to create a conservation based economy. To add yourself to this free listserve, see Tidepool. Read the Southeast Conservation Council's (SEACC) story of the vanishing "Ghost Trees" of Southeast Alaska's rainforest. Read about the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) from the ANCSA resource center. Visit the Aboriginal Mapping Network site for maps of Native lands in B.C., Alaska, and other N.American areas, as well as further information and links. Go to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's official Arctic National Wildlife Refuge site. Read a thorough article (with maps) on the temperate rainforest of the Pacific Northwest Coast, "The Rainforests of Home" by Ecotrust. Read an article about the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, "Indigenous Rights and Northern Lands" from the University of Connecticut group "Arctic Circle". Check out these links to other informative websites				Here are some resources that can help you understand the issues affecting the Eyak homelands.
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				AK Native Claims Settlement Act (ANSCA) and Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA)
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