Focus On Alaska

The foundation’s strategic approach to wilderness preservation is founded on the same premise that created its financial resources: to always leverage resources to allow the greatest impact in providing permanent protection for wilderness areas.

This is why we are focused on Alaska, our largest state. Within its 365 million acres are some of our most magnificent mountain ranges, vast forested lands, innumerable lakes and marshes, seemingly endless tundra, free-flowing rivers and the largest concentrations of wildlife in the United States.

Alaska also has the most federally owned land of any state — approximately 200 million acres. These federally owned lands belong to all Americans, making the permanent protection of Alaska a national issue with wide public support.

However, proposals to extract Alaska’s natural resources, such as oil, coal, minerals and timber, are increasing every year. Such activity will destroy our nation’s greatest wild lands and populations of wildlife. The only way to guarantee that these lands remain protected is to ensure that they are permanently set aside for their ecological importance.

The time for action is now. By using the power of public participation in actions affecting federal lands, we can leverage our grant-making dollars to the maximum extent, helping to protect some of our nation’s largest and most fully intact ecosystems.

The Campion Foundation supports organizations and campaigns working to protect Alaska’s public lands — from the biologically rich Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska to the globally important arctic ecosystems.

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Focus On Alaska