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⇱ Southeast Alaska Conservation Council - SEACC

Southeast Alaska
Is Our Home

And we’re here to protect it

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The Southeast Alaska Conservation Council is a homegrown conservation group of Southeast Alaskans fiercely fighting to protect our home: the ancient and mighty Tongass National Forest and the crisp, vibrant waters of the Inside Passage. This is our backyard. We’ve been protecting it since 1970 and continue today.

Southeast Alaska Is Under Threat, and We’re Doing Something About It

We are facing daily, hostile threats to our environment and way of life in Southeast Alaska. 

Out-of-touch politicians want to repeal decades-old safeguards on the Tongass to open it up to clearcut logging and road building. Government agencies constantly propose new timber sales to clearcut our forests. The mining industry willfully ignores environmental regulations and tries to extract more and more minerals near critical salmon-producing watersheds, with increasing support from government. Water pollution from the use of dirty fuels threaten our living marine waters.

All of this threatens the 35 communities that make up Southeast Alaska.

We are here to say: ‘ENOUGH!’

To us, Southeast Alaska, though beautiful, is not just pretty scenery. It is where we live, work, and play. We rely on this living forest and its waterways for food, jobs, clean air, and water.

SEACC has galvanized our supporters into action to successfully protect this place for more than 50 years.

We are a grassroots advocacy organization, powered by the supporters who work with us to take action.

We use our collective voice — united by the love of this special place — to win in the courtroom, to hold industry and government accountable, and to advocate for laws that point us toward a more sustainable future.

We are Southeast Alaskans. This is our home. And we’re not going anywhere.

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What We’re Working On

Tongass National Forest

With its ancient, towering trees and pristine waterways teeming with salmon, the lush Tongass National Forest spans Southeast Alaska’s panhandle and is the largest national forest in the United States. We work to protect, restore and honor this living temperate rainforest — traditional homelands of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian peoples — that drives our region’s economy and sustains us with food, jobs, and clean air and water.

Inside Passage Waters

Southeast Alaska is as much water as it is land. Here, the interconnected web of the Inside Passage is home to lush wild salmon rivers and immense watersheds that feed the trees of the Tongass and the oceans of the world. It is a place teeming with biodiversity — from whales and wolves, to eagles, deer and bears, to salmon and communities.

Grassroots Community Organizing

SEACC brings people together in our region and around the world in support of the greatest place on Earth: Southeast Alaska. We believe people power is key to protecting this special place from industrial-scale clearcut logging, mines that threaten our salmon strongholds, political threats, and a climate that is changing at a dizzying speed.

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👁 Mining Roundup

Mining Roundup

Dec 23, 2025

By far the biggest issue on my plate as Mining Campaigner has turned out to be a bit about mining and also, at least on the surface, a lot about a terrible transportation infrastructure project. Of course, the Cascade Point Ferry Terminal and the New Amalga Gold Mine are inextricably linked. ...

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👁 Tell your Tongass tale

Tell your Tongass tale

Jul 14, 2025

Telling stories is essential to advocacy and we need your stories. You're here, so you care about the Tongass — do you have a story about the Tongass? About your experiences sheltered by old growth? About hunting or fishing or harvesting? About making art inspired by the sights and sounds? About a...