Northern Alaska Environmental Center.

Since its inception in 1971, the Northern Alaska Environmental Center -- the northernmost local environmental organization in America--has focused its energies on preserving the natural and human environments of northern and central Alaska. While the Alaska Conservation Society had been actively engaged in environmental issues since 1960, the Center was conceived out of a perceived need by the state's environmentalists for a locally-based organization which could represent regional interests. The organization was named the Fairbanks Environmental Center with its mission described as "dedicated to the protection of the quality of the Alaskan environment through education and action". Among many issues the Center has represented northern environmental concerns in the ANILCA (d) (2) and Alaska National Wildlife Refuge land battles and the development of the Susitna Dam, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and the North Slope Haul Road. In 1981, the Center changed its name to the Northern Alaska Environmental Center.

From the guide to the Northern Alaska Environmental Center Records, 1971-1999, (University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska Polar Regions Collections & Archives)