Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
0:27
Emma Gibney
“This type of cemetery relies on affordable. Low density burials, restricting the use of large monuments or gravestones so view sheds remain uninterrupted and the land can serve the community as a multipurpose space and as wildlife habitat.”Prefix — Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:23
Emma Gibney
“This property is located in South Anchorage on Golden view Drive about 1.25 miles south of the Golden View Middle School. It is across the street from Moen. Park and it is uphill from Potter Marsh Watershed Park. It is approximately 9.6 acres in size and is zoned PLI Public Lands and Institutions.”Prefix — Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:22
Emma Gibney
“Because the proposed disposal is pursuant to subsection H, which allows for the competitive disposal of HLB land in order to facilitate a specific project that will provide public benefits, it is required that the disposal also include conditions to ensure the proper development and completion of the project in the public interest.”Prefix — Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:20
Zac Johnson
“Two concerns. One, that by doing natural burials, that we risk either water contamination or that predators like bears might unearth remains. And can you say that those have been addressed or mitigated?”Prefix — Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:21
Ryan Yell
“And also we have two conditions about. The Green Burial Council's natural burial ground standards that address those concerns”Prefix — Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:43
Zac Johnson
“I have a question, but first, just want to highlight the fact that for people who are not interested in being cremated, there are very few options in Anchorage these days other than if you have access to one of those privately reserved spots of the cemetery. So just highlighting there that there is certainly unmet demand for people who wish to be a buried in that way. And as was also noted, we tried to increase cemetery capacity through a bond measure a couple years ago that failed.”Prefix — Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:15
Emma Gibney
“Alaska Natural. Burial is going to work with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to. Create a document with guidelines for best practices to avoid human wildlife conflict. And that this document will be supplied. To HLV prior to disposal.”Prefix — Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:16
Emma Gibney
“The only other financial information I can. Cite is the amount of money that. The bonds were for to create a new municipal cemetery which would have been $1.57 million for the book for each. Each of the Girdwood and then the Eagle. Eagle river cemeteries.”Prefix — Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:27
Emma Gibney
“Over the years, we've received dozens of comments of support not only from community councils but also from the Parks and Recreation Department, Watershed Management Services Division, the. Municipal Cemetery Director, and a long list. Of residents who would love the opportunity to receive a natural burial in in. Such a beautiful location.”Prefix — Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:05
Ryan Yell
“So it is just over $500,000.”Prefix — Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:19
James Kaufman
“I ask these questions because it's been kind of conversationally put forth that that's available for the potential gas project. And I just want to be clear on the record with where we're at on that. Do you know if there's been any inquiry to start that?”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 5, 2026 9:00am · Jun 5, 2026
0:31
Jesse Kiehl
“I think there was conversation a few minutes ago about a barrel of oil equivalent in gas having a value like $9 versus a barrel of oil, which, you know, we cry a little bit when it's 60. And right now we're doing pretty well on the budget within at 105 or 110. So there, that's not something the commission looks at. That's something that the legislature has to look at”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 5, 2026 9:00am · Jun 5, 2026
0:26
Austin Quinn-Davidson
“we have two conditions about the Green Burial Council's natural burial ground standards that address those concerns as well. Thank you. And also, there's no residential wells downstream from where this is going to take place.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:22
Austin Quinn-Davidson
“Alaska Natural Burial is going to work with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to create a document with guidelines for best practices to avoid human wildlife conflict. And that this document will be supplied to HLB prior to disposal.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:24
Austin Quinn-Davidson
“we are proposing a zero dollar sale of the property”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:50
Austin Quinn-Davidson
“There is the direct public benefit that Alaska Natural Burials Project will provide much needed cemetery space for the municipality while also providing the indirect financial public benefit by not relying on taxpayer funding or the passing of bond measures.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:39
Austin Quinn-Davidson
“the amount of money that the bonds were for to create a new municipal cemetery, which would have been $1.57 million for the book for each. Each of the Girdwood and then the Eagle. Eagle river cemeteries. Not to say that that's how much it's going to cost to set up this because it's a very different model, but just as a comparison that we are going to be creating a new cemetery for residents of the municipality of the municipality that instead of something that would have cost $4.1 million”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:05
Austin Quinn-Davidson
“it is just over $500,000”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-72, authorizing competitive disposal with conditions of Heritage Land Bank... · Jun 1, 2026
0:27
Cody Allen
“We can put in fuel breaks in a lot of places, but if the wind's blowing and fire is established, those fuel breaks can only do so much. What's going to help people out is. Is what we call hardening around their houses and getting their houses set up to where a fire comes through. It just goes by and doesn't bother their house.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Miller's Reach - 30 Years Later (Full Documentary) · Jun 5, 2026
0:18
Speaker A
“We called for retardant and the helicopters and they dropped. The winds were just made it ineffective. The retardant blew, you know, 200ft past where they were trying to drop”Alaska DNR Forestry: Miller's Reach - 30 Years Later (Full Documentary) · Jun 5, 2026
0:22
Speaker A
“I went from literally just a few trees torching, which we got on in a hurry, to group torching and to a full running fire in under 15 minutes. I mean 15, 20 minutes. And it was off and running and something we weren't going to be able to catch.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Miller's Reach - 30 Years Later (Full Documentary) · Jun 5, 2026
0:29
Dick
“we had the big contract go out and looking for partners and it was going to be a floating dock off of both 1 and 2. And what it did is it gave them easier access to the dock and it also gave us more space on the dock because we don't have enough space down there for all the buses and vans right now.”Ketchikan: Recurring City Council Meeting of June 4, 2026 · Jun 5, 2026
0:56
Speaker A
“Has any thought gone into that process in regards to this type of expansion? I have certainly thought about that. I, I think the initial, my initial idea is to get, get the design and then once that's done, if we decide we want to go with that, then we can certainly reach out to, to the particular cruise lines to see if there's interest.”Ketchikan: Recurring City Council Meeting of June 4, 2026 · Jun 5, 2026
0:09
Abby Bradbury
“I just don't think this is the right climate for the expansion of birth one.”Ketchikan: Recurring City Council Meeting of June 4, 2026 · Jun 5, 2026
0:40
Jay Matani
“I also think our cruise line partners, if they are going to bring in bigger ships, should pony up.”Ketchikan: Recurring City Council Meeting of June 4, 2026 · Jun 5, 2026
0:40
Finnegan
“I move that the city council Authorize contract number 2639, Professional Services Agreement Birth 1 Expansion Dolphin and Dock. PND Engineers incorporated in the amount of $290,000”Ketchikan: Recurring City Council Meeting of June 4, 2026 · Jun 5, 2026
0:32
Abby Bradbury
“I'm also really more focused on shoring up docks one and two. They haven't had a lot of maintenance underground, like proper maintenance to shore it up in a long time. And I would prefer to see this money move to just making sure that dock is gonna hold”Ketchikan: Recurring City Council Meeting of June 4, 2026 · Jun 5, 2026
0:17
Geneva Preston
“Lands that are designated wildlife habitat, their primary use is supporting fish and wildlife habitat values. And so any development activities would need to be designed in support of those values.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area Public Review: Virtual Meeting – April 29, 2026 · Jun 3, 2026
1:12
Geneva Preston
“one of the most significant changes between the plan that was published in 2002 and the current amended draft is a change in policy that allows timber sales to be a potential use in the public recreation or wildlife habitat lands.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area Public Review: Virtual Meeting – April 29, 2026 · Jun 3, 2026
1:14
Geneva Preston
“The management goal for the state forest includes balancing a wide range of values and uses”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area Public Review: Virtual Meeting – April 29, 2026 · Jun 3, 2026
0:33
Geneva Preston
“Timber harvest would are very likely to be designed in coordination with the Department of Fish and Game and they would be designed with the purpose of enhancing habitat. And generally this will look like selective harvest in these units as well.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area Public Review: Virtual Meeting – April 29, 2026 · Jun 3, 2026
0:27
Geneva Preston
“any harvest, any timber harvest or resource development activities must be designed to exist compatibly with public recreation uses. And so typically that would look like timbers harvests that are designed to support recreation facilities or support access to areas that are important for recreation.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area Public Review: Virtual Meeting – April 29, 2026 · Jun 3, 2026
0:21
Geneva Preston
“5 acres in unit 3H is the smallest size limit that we see and other units have a cap at 20. 20 Acres is the largest even age timber harvest that I think is permitted in these public recreation designated lands.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area Public Review: Virtual Meeting – April 29, 2026 · Jun 3, 2026
1:00
Geneva Preston
“within the Haines State Forest resource management area, 300 foot buffer around anonymous streams and 500 foot like retention buffers around lakes with anadromous fish populations apply throughout the forest.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area Public Review: Virtual Meeting – April 29, 2026 · Jun 3, 2026
1:25
Geneva Preston
“our tools really for addressing like, the needs of the biotic community in, you know, in this landscape would be like having the ability to use forest management activities in a way that the Department of Fish and Game is advising the division to do”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area Public Review: Virtual Meeting – April 29, 2026 · Jun 3, 2026
1:31
Speaker G
“the old growth forests are now have pretty well been determined to be the most important forest to protect through carbon offsets because they, you know, they have sequesters and hold the most carbon and sort of cutting those down would, you know, release more carbon than any other part of the forest.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
0:21
Speaker A
“we're expanding the opportunity to harvest timber, but we are not expanding the acreage of land that's classified forest. The classifications as they currently are, will not be changed in this plan amendment.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
0:55
Speaker A
“it's written in Alaska statute that the primary purpose for the establishment of the Haines State Forest Resource Management Area, or purposes plural, are the utilization, perpetuation, conservation and production of the land and water, including but not limited to the use of renewable and non renewable resources through multiple use management”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
1:04
Speaker G
“it kind of flies in the face of the concept of management plan if you set something up where you classify the lands for different management purposes, so you have recreation, you have wildlife and. And other categories, and then you say, but by the way, we can, even though we're managing this for one purpose, we can turn around and change all that.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
0:47
Speaker G
“you haven't provided any rationale for why all your policy, the policy you're proposing in which all lands become part of the timber base, you know, you've said, you've expressed that, but you really haven't provided a rationale for why you would want to do this.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
0:55
Speaker A
“The feedback that we receive on a side of opposition to the, to this strategy that's kind of proposed right now, we have an equal and opposite force of feedback asking for something more. And so our role is to find a balance where the most possible use is made available to the Alaskan public by DoF's management of the forest.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
1:30
Speaker A
“the question is more of how to accommodate multiple uses on these sites with the different primary classification use that's, that's identified through that classification name. So the goal in updating the policy is to, to find a way that we can accommodate both wildlife habitat and timber harvest, or both public recreation and timber harvest.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
0:41
Speaker A
“the sample size for those percentages that you just described is 12 individuals. And so in, in reviewing the survey responses, we arrived at the conclusion that 12 individuals is not representative of the community at large”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
1:06
Speaker A
“we determined that with our one of our primary goals in the revision to be adding language to allow carbon offset projects within the state forest, we might need to make additional changes that we hadn't originally presented to the public as part of this amendment. And so in July of this year, this past summer, we published a public notice announcement that specified that we would be revising policy to allow timber harvest in areas where it had previously been prohibited.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
1:30
Speaker A
“one of the Division of Forestry's primary goals and amending the management plan at this time is to create space and allow for carbon offset projects as a potential use within Haines State Forest Resource Management Area and for that to be a realistic possibility, it needs to be identified in the management plan. And the Division has determined that to make a carbon off the project like a realistic use of the resources in the Haines State Forest Resource Management Area to like expand the timber base is a part of that of that process.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
0:20
Speaker A
“There are currently 13 job centers in Alaska, one in Anchorage, Midtown, Mat Su, Dillingham, Fairbanks, Homer, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Nome, Kenai, Sitka, Valdez and Bethel.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
0:29
Speaker A
“Employment offers significant social and emotional benefits for justice involved individuals such as improved self esteem, financial independence and a reduced likelihood of engaging in criminal behavior. The WOTC helps open doors to these benefits by incentivizing employers to give people with criminal backgrounds an opportunity to work.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
0:06
Speaker A
“My name is Savannah and I work at the Mat Su Job center and today I'm going to be talking with you about Employment after incarceration.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026