This month we’re running our Natural Resource Special Section. Alaska’s natural resource development has defined our state’s past and will continue to play a massive role in its future. What’s important is that the players in these industries continue to grow, expand, and innovate, using new tech and implementing higher standards to all kinds of processes. Regulations, permitting, and management plans are essential tools to ensure we’re operating safely and responsibly today—and that we have a beautiful, accessible, and clean Alaska to operate in tomorrow. Alaska can be the answer to global demands, providing minerals and materials necessary for, well, kind of everything: clean-burning coal; high-quality lumber; wild-caught, nutrient-packed fish; humanely mined copper, gold, silver, and zinc.
