Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC)

The Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC) is a non-profit organization that focusses on protecting the lands and waters of Southeast Alaska. They promote conservation and advocate for sustainable natural resource management. SEACC is located in Alaska’s capital: Juneau. The environmental organization focuses specifically on concerns in the Southeast region of Alaska: including the Panhandle, the Tongass National Forest and the Inside Passage.

SEACC’s core purpose is “to protect Southeast Alaska’s wild lands and clean water in order to sustain an intact ecosystem, abundant fish and wildlife populations, and a unique Southeast Alaskan way of life.” Striving for interconnecting the values of land, wildlife, cultures, and communities so all of this can exist together for future generations. SEACC brings local voices together and gives community members a platform to express their concerns and advocate for a change.

Large-scale clearcutting projects by the United States Forest Service were of great concern to environmental activists in the 1960s and 1970s. Specifically, the long-term permits the Forest Service had given to two pulp mills that allowed them to clear-cut ancient old-growth trees and turn them into pulp. In 1970, a group of Southeast Alaskans from communities across the entire region formed a group to oppose the unsustainable logging in the Tongass National Forest. They started as the Tongass National Forest preservation group and were mostly fighting the large-scale old-growth logging, but later they changed their name to the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council. In 1977 SEACC became a federally recognized 501(c) organization.

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