UPDATE:  Tune in tonight to Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.  Rick Steiner will be Keith’s guest during the first hour. Lessons of the Deepwater Horizon disaster By Professor Rick Steiner, Conservation and Sustainability Consultant, Anchorage Alaska Member, IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy If one of the hallmarks of intelligence is the [...]

This One’s for You, Gordon Haber – Denali Wolves Proposed for More Protection Dr. Rick Steiner, Professor, University of Alaska Dec. 2, 2009 In a state like Alaska, consumptive use of wildlife (hunting, trapping, commercial guiding) is the rule, not the exception. Efforts of those trying to protect Alaska’s wildlife for aesthetic, ecological, economic, and [...]

UPDATE:  Dr. Rick Steiner announces that he intends to resign from his 30 year professorship with the University of Alaska.  He lost his federal grant funding after years of speaking out against environmental malpractice, including questioning the possibility of responsible oil exploration in Alaska’s Bristol Bay.  The oil industry funds a large portion of the [...]