Oppose Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities

The groups on this fight

4 groups predicted likely to care in Alaska

Predicted likely to care is a guess from footprint in Alaska, by the same match the STAND matchmaker runs, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• Alaska Wilderness League

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Alaska: built around defending the Arctic Refuge from oil and gas drilling.

• Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Alaska: lead plaintiff in the November 2025 federal suit challenging the land exchange signed to put a road through the Izembek Wilderness.

• Northern Alaska Environmental Center

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Alaska: first-named plaintiff in Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Trump, the Ambler road suit filed in 2020.

• Southeast Alaska Conservation Council

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Alaska: southeast Alaska’s homegrown defender of the Tongass since 1970.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

NMFS is proposing a 5-year renewal (2026-2031) of regulations that would allow Hilcorp Alaska to disturb marine mammals while building and maintaining sea ice roads and trails along Alaska's Beaufort Sea coast. The rule would authorize 'incidental take' of marine mammals under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, meaning Hilcorp can legally harass or disturb animals as a byproduct of its ice road operations tied to oil and gas activities. It affects marine mammal populations in the Beaufort Sea, including species like polar bears, ringed seals, and bearded seals.

NMFS has received a request from Hilcorp Alaska, LLC (Hilcorp) for promulgation of incidental take regulations (ITR) and issuance of an associated Letter of Authorization (LOA) that would authorize continued take of marine mammals over 5 years (2026-2031) incidental to the construction, maintenance and use of sea ice roads, trails and adjacent ice pads after the expiration of the existing ITR and LOA. Pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), NMFS is proposing regulations setting forth permissible methods of taking, other means of effecting the least practicable adverse impact on such marine mammal sto…

Federal Register 2026-02048 ↗

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