Working across Western Alaska to inform landscape-level conservation

Our mission is to bring partners together to coordinate, share, and develop applied science that can ​be used to inform conservation. We promote coordination, dissemination, and development of applied science to inform landscape level conservation, including terrestrial-marine linkages, in the face of landscape scale stressors, focusing on climate change.

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Our region

The Western Alaska Partnership includes over 750 miles of rapidly changing terrain, including the permafrost-dominated tundra of the Seward Peninsula, complex river delta systems of the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, abundant volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula, and transitional forests of permafrost-free Kodiak Island.

Our Success Stories

  • Western Alaska Partnership

    Yukon-Kuskokwim Region Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy

    Regional Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) documents go through a comprehensive, robust update every five years. The Association of Village Council Presidents (AVCP) last conducted a full update in 2018. The Western Alaska Partnership has been involved in the YK Delta – CEDS Working Group since a summit of over 100 participants from across the[…..]

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