Eyak Preservation Council

07/03/2025

This page will not close soon! EPC Vision and strength remains and stays strong - blessed be the Copper River Salmon, and all that love and support our clean waters and lands.

04/01/2024

This site will be closing soon, so many thinks for all of your support and caring all these years. AwA'ahdah

09/07/2023

CELEBRATION! Secretary Deb Haaland, first Indigenous US Department of the Interior lead, cancels ALL oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! Gwich'in call the Refuge coastal plane: Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit – which translates to: The Sacred Place Where Life Begins. This is a human rights issue, yes climate change - a solution here could spread worldwide. Applaud - Clap! Dance! Public Comments will be requested by the US Gov. Will alert ~
Photos: Caribou traveling towards coastal plane (Banerjee), infant caribou on Arctic Refuge coastal plane (Banerjee), from a Gwich'in Gather / 2010, Fort Yukon, Alaska, CH

11/01/2022

"...out of money"? Subsistence users say feds aren’t investing enough in marine mammal research in Alaska

Members of an Indigenous people’s council say that federal agencies aren’t doing enough to manage marine mammal populations and subsistence resources across Alaska.

10/24/2022

Some good news about the Sacred Place Where Life Begins: i.e. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
There no better history that the United States could have than to preserve and retire in perpetuity the vibrant coastal plain "birthplace of peace". In Gwich'in: Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit

Analysis: Congress’ action, spurred by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, prompted conservation groups to launch a successful campaign to block big banks and insurers from backing drilling not just in the refuge, but anywhere in the Arctic.

06/16/2022

Gwich'in: Sacred Place Where Life Begins. Millions of birds nesting, foxes, bears, all Refuge animals mating and birthing. The Gwich'in call this a rare time of peace. Even a little early for the mosquitos - they aren't up quite yet! The Gwich'in say no hunting there, ever - not a place, not for humans, ever. No exploration, no roads, no drilling. NO!!! It's a human rights issue for the Gwich'in, and we dare say, for all of us. It's OUR Refuge, too.

04/27/2022

COMMENTS DUE MAY 2, 2022. It was communicated to the Eyak Preservation Council the wargames will very likely take place again in May of 2023. They will "...include one large-scale Carrier Strike Group (CSG) exercise annually, as well as Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW) activities and the use of active sonar for up to 21 consecutive days." An interesting quote from the Record of Decision (pg. 9): "The Navy has no existing procedural protective measures in place specifically for fish..."
PLEASE Review and Comment: https://goaeis.com/Documents/2022-Supplement-to-the-Gulf-of-Alaska-Draft-SEIS-OEIS-Documents?utm_source=Gulf+of+Alaska+Navy+Training+Activities+Supplemental+EIS%2FOEIS&utm_campaign=10ea371f25-EMAIL_goa-supplement-to-2020-seis_20220318&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15e5edfcca-10ea371f25-151352538

04/08/2022

A very difficult post here. The biennual (every odd year - next one: 2023) Northern Edge Military trainings in the Gulf of Alaska are expanding the GOA territory of the war games. They - the Navy, Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, and sometimes other nations, do these 11-day to two week exercises in MAY. YES, in MAY - when the salmon are heading through the GOA towards their spawning grounds, the birds are migrating over the GOA, all animals are in movement and breeding, gathering, after the Alaska winter. THERE'S A COMMENT PERIOD, May 2, 2022. I have put the link in a comment below. Note - in Cordova, in 2019 the Navy public relations team came all smiles speaking about how careful and respectful of the environment they are. A very nice Commander (I have his name) took me aside and said: "Do the salmon, really come back every May?" That's an exact quote.

03/24/2022

Dark Anniversary - Exxon Valdez oil spill. 33 years.
Hearts and minds go to all people and all animals, and plants and all life, hit by this disaster, that isn't over.

03/03/2022

SHEPARD POINT ROAD & DEEP WATER PORT
ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS:
COMMENTS REQUEST
DEADLINE MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2022
Interested parties are hereby notified that a request to modify Department of the Army (DA)
permit POA-1994-01014 has been received. All comments should reach this office no later than the
expiration date of this Public Notice to become part of the record and be considered in the decision.
The Full Text of this Notice is Available:

http://www.poa.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/PublicNotices.aspx

The request for comments is for focus on the project modifications. This project has a permit.
To request the announcement email please email:
[email protected]
COMMENTS CAN BE EMAILED TO: [email protected]