Protect the Central Yukon Resource Management Plan and Roadless Rule

Photo: Jackie Cleveland

Nick Begich, Dan Sullivan, and Lisa Murkowski are trying to use federal power to brush aside the voices of Alaska Native communities and open up huge areas of Alaska to new oil and gas drilling, mining, and roads. 

Take action TODAY with the form below and tell Alaska’s congressional delegation that they need to respect the voice of Alaskans and save the Central Yukon Regional Management Plan and protect the Roadless Rule! 

This September, there are two key fights to protect Alaska’s lands and waters: 

The Central Yukon Regional Management Plan: 

The Central Yukon Regional Management Plan governs management of 13.3 million acres of public land in central and northern Alaska. The current Central Yukon Regional Management Plan, which was finalized in 2024, was developed over 13 years of public input with local stakeholders including 33 public meetings and with six Tribes as cooperating agencies. It was designed to promote thoughtful stewardship - including protections for declining species and promoting sustainable uses for the land. 

Now, Alaska’s congressional delegation is trying to repeal this plan using the Congressional Review Act - allowing congresspeople from across the country to tell Alasakans how they are or are not allowed to manage their land. Congress has never used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn a regional resource management plan, and doing so would create a dangerous precedent that could empower the federal government to override regional management plans across the country. 

The Roadless Rule 

The 2001 Roadless Rule protects over 9 million acres of the Tongass from extractive-focused roadbuilding and industrial timber harvest (and over 44.7 million acres nationally). The Trump administration is attempting to roll back the Roadless Rule in order to pave the way for more logging and mining in areas that are critical to economies, communities, and livelihoods.

Our friends at the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council are also asking for your support to protect the Roadless Rule in a public comment period by September 19! 

Roadbuilding and logging in these areas disrupt wildlife habitat, fragment migration corridors, and increase sediment in spawning streams. Sedimentation and habitat fragmentation from logging roads can persist for decades, harming fish and wildlife populations and decimating subsistence hunting and fishing that sustain Alaska Native communities.

We know that the people who know the land best are the ones who can best decide how to manage it. Take action and tell the Alaska congressional delegation stop letting DC dictate how Alasakans manage their land.

We know we may not win all of these fights - but MUST stand up to all of the Trump administration's efforts to treat Alaska like a resource warehouse for the rest of the country and the world. We know that Alaska Native communities, and all residents, can protect our sacred land and waters better than any DC bureaucrats - and together we will win.