AWA’s wildlife work at Alaska’s premier marine mammal conference
AWA Receives Wildlife Conservation Society Climate Adaptation Grant
Alaska Wildlife Alliance Receives 2022 Best of Anchorage Award!
Alaska Wildlife Alliance Receives 2022 Best of Anchorage Award
Press Release: Anchorage Award Program Honors the Achievement
ANCHORAGE December 9, 2022 -- Alaska Wildlife Alliance has been selected for the 2022 Best of Anchorage Award in the Community Organizations category by the Anchorage Award Program.
Each year, the Anchorage Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Anchorage area a great place to live, work and play.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose one winner in each category. The 2022 Anchorage Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Anchorage Award Program and data provided by third parties.
About Anchorage Award Program
The Anchorage Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Anchorage area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.
The Anchorage Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's contributions to the U.S. economy.
SOURCE: Anchorage Award Program
CONTACT:
Anchorage Award Program
Email: PublicRelations@awardsforbusinesses.com
URL: http://www.awardsforbusinesses.com
2022 Annual Report
AWA receives grant from National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s National Coastal Resilience Fund
StoryMap! Wildlife and the new Sterling Highway underpasses
Why do moose cross the road? To get to the other side, of course — as do other wildlife like lynx, caribou, bears and wolves. The nature of the beast is that dens and calving areas and salmon and hardwood browse and berries don’t all occur in the same place. View a new storymap that demonstrates new wildlife crossings on the Sterling Highway!
AWA on the Alaska Law Review 'Alaska and the Environment' Panel
In the News: Wolves in Southeast Alaska Face Pressures From All Sides
“Wolves are a charismatic top predator that have become a symbol of wildness for the conservation movement. Aldo Leopold famously wrote about the conflict between humans and wolves in his 1948 essay, ‘Thinking Like a Mountain,’ where he reflected upon shooting a wolf. Many historians credit this essay as a milestone in the modern-day environmental movement. To this day, wolves elicit an emotional response from so many of us. Love them or hate them, wolves attract a disproportionate amount of attention.”
Publication: A RADical approach to conservation in Alaska
Climate Adaptation Workshop Report is Here!
AWA's Executive Director Wins Award
Our own Executive Director, Nicole Schmitt (center), was recently an Alaska Top Forty Under 40 winner for 2022 through the Alaska Journal of Commerce. Congrats, Nicole!
In the News: Homer’s First Marine Mammal Forum
“Brought together by the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, with the support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Kenai Peninsula College, the three-day forum held April 18-21, the culmination of a long-term conversation about educating boaters on how to ethically enjoy seeing the marine life of Kachemak Bay.”
VICTORY! Court upholds prohibition of brown bear baiting in the Kenai Refuge
Alaska Wildlife Alliance and our coalition partners celebrated a U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision today that upheld a 2016 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service rule that enshrines the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s long-standing prohibition on brown bear baiting, along with its decades-long approach of managing the Skilak Wildlife Recreation Area for wildlife viewing and education.
