Jun 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
On May 23rd ACWA hosted the 5th Chilkat Challenge Triathlon in S.E. Alaska. More than 90 people registered for the ~40-mile paddle/bike/run in and alongside the Chilkat River. The 9-mile paddle takes racers past the ancient (and still active) Lingit Village of Klukwan...
Dec 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
ACWA and local conservation groups continued throughout the year to work with the Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan in opposing the Palmer Project, the copper-zinc mining development in the upper Chilkat Valley. The exploratory effort is controlled and funded by the...
Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
ACWA successfully nominated the Chilkat/Klehini river system to the Most Endangered River in America list for 2023. These unique, productive rivers, and the entire Chilkat Valley are under threat from proposed mining operations. This story has been published by...
Sep 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
SECURITIES COMPLAINT ALLEGES CONSTANTINE METAL RESOURCES IS MISLEADING INVESTORS ABOUT ITS PALMER PROJECTView full complaint here.CONTACT: Chris Zimmer, Rivers Without Borders, 907-586-2166, zimmer@riverswithoutborders.orgJessica Plachta, Lynn Canal Conservation,...
Jun 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
For 2,000 years, Jones Hotch’s ancestors have fished Alaska’s Chilkat River for the five species of salmon that spawn in its cold, clean waters. They have gathered berries, hunted moose and raised their families, sheltered from the extremes of winter by the black,...
Jun 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
For more than a decade, Constantine Metals Resources (CMR) has played a public relations game with the communities of Haines and Klukwan, posing as a caring, majority controlling interest in the proposed copper-zinc mine known as the Palmer Project. Their goal...
