2007 – NPCA launched its highly successful "Discovery Series" in partnership with REI, Inc. Each month a featured speaker would address an evening crowd about his/her experiences in one of Alaska’s national parks. Average attendance was near 100 persons. This series was designed to introduce Anchorage residents to the national parks in Alaska beyond Denali and Glacier Bay.

2007 – In response to resource damage made by illegally permitted recreational all-terrain vehicles (ATV) on nine trails in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve, NPCA led a small coalition of plaintiffs in a successful legal challenge which is forcing the Park Service to follow its own rules in allowing such use.  NPCA charged that the park Service had not done the required environmental analysis or review of ATV impacts and the court settlement directed the Park Service do that analysis.  Three of the most damaged trails were also closed.

2007 -The Alaska Office coordinated a comprehensive Katmai bear protection strategy with bear viewing guides, hunters, and photographers on a specific set of proposals submitted to the Alaska Board of Game to reduce brown bear hunting in Katmai National Preserve and to reinstate a closure on 92,000 acres of state owned land within Katmai National Park at the March 2007 Board of Game meeting.  The effort was successful in halting the plan to open 92,000 acres of state-owned land in Katmai National Park to bear hunting for the first time in 20 years.  The office is still working to reduce the impact of bear hunting in Katmai National Preserve.

2007 - The Alaska Office, in partnership with the University of Alaska’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Katmai National Park & Preserve, was awarded a $60,000 grant to develop a model for evaluating the economic impact of remote parks in Alaska on local economies, including gateway communities like Anchorage. 

2006 – Issued a detailed report on the lack of adequate wildlife population science and accurate harvest records for those park units that provide for sport and/or subsistence hunting.  The report, titled Who’s Counting? How Insufficient Support for Science in Hindering National Park Wildlife Science in Alaska, is focusing attention on the need for additional funding support for this critical baseline wildlife data necessary to make sound management decisions in Alaska’s national park units.  The report has been welcomed by the Park Service and has seen distribution to a majority of Alaska’s national ark wildlife managers.

2006 – NPCA appeared before Congressman Mark Sounder in August, 2006 at a field hearing held in Anchorage in support of the Congressman's National Park Centennial Act.  NPCA's testimony included the release of its Who’s Counting?  Report as an Alaska specific funding need that could be met with increased funding provided for by Souder’s bill.

2006 – NPCA challenged a decision by the Park Service to increase the number of cruise ships in Glacier Bay by 10%.  While ultimately we were not successful in halting the increase, we were a significant balance to a request by Governor Murkowski to increase the numbers by three times that much.

2006 – NPCA continues as a successful intervener in a lawsuit brought by the Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of the Hale Family living outside McCarthy in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found for the Park Service, but Hale's attorneys have petitioned the Supreme Court twice for a rehearing.  Our attorney, Trustees for Alaska, have filed several briefs in support of the Park Service position and in support of the Ninth Circuit ruling.

2005 – Working in a coordinated fashion with a statewide transportation coalition, NPCA commented on the implications to Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park of the proposed road from Juneau to Skagway.  The final EIS recognized these concerns and modified the preferred alternative to exclude any impact on the park.

2005 – NPCA worked closely with Denali National Park on a process that recognized legitimate subsistence use of ATVs on three trails near the village of Cantwell.  This will allow NPS to manage legal subsistence ATV use on those trails only and makes it clear that ATV use outside the identified area is illegal.  Prior to this new finding, NPS was reluctant to pursue ATV incursions into the park.  This new process will serve as a model for other Alaska parks with similar positive results in our campaign to restrict illegal ATV incursions into Alaska’s parks.

2005 – NPCA filed an Amicus Brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on the legality of Alaska’s ownership claim of tide and submerged lands within Glacier Bay National Park.  In June 2005, the Supreme Court ruled for the National Park Service.  NPCA's Amicus outline the potential impacts to the park should the state prevail and was cited in the majority opinion.

2005 – NPCA generated over 3,000 comments to the Alaska Board of Game that resulted in the state of Alaska adopting a regulation exempting national park lands from any official state predator control plan.  Lands in Lake Clark National Preserve previously included in a state predator control plan were removed.  Plans to open state-owned lands within Katmai National Park were delayed until 2007.  This is a summary of actions:

• Four of five predator control proposals that included lands within national parks were not adopted.  The one adopted proposal exempted national parklands.
• Lands within Lake Clark National Preserve that were included in a wolf predator control area last year were removed.
• Language was changed in Board of Game regulations so that future predator control proposals cannot include national park lands without Park Service concurrence.
• Two proposals to allow same-day airborne hunting of black bears in Wrangell-St. Elias, Denali, and Lake Clark preserves were defeated.
• A proposal to allow wolf hunting by snowmobile in Wrangell-St. Elias, Denali, and Lake Clark was defeated.  And, according to a preliminary report from NPS, two proposals that did pass authorizing the use of snowmobiles in wolf hunting exempted parklands in the authorized areas.
• Two proposals to reduce the brown bear hunting season in Katmai National Preserve did not pass.
• Opening the Douglas River Headlands (state owned lands within Katmai National Park) to bear hunting was delayed until 2007.

2004 – The National Park Service released its finial Glacier Bay National Park Vessel Management EIS that was written as a result of litigation brought by NPCA several years ago (see 2001 accomplishment).  The final EIS limits boat numbers for ALL vessels (an improvement NPCA argued for) and provides additional limitations on how boats can operate (speed limit, closures).

2004 – NPCA was a successful intervener in a lawsuit brought by the Pacific Legal Foundation against the National Park Service on behalf of the Hale Family living outside McCarthy in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.  The Hale Family (also known as the Pilgrims) had illegally bulldozed a road into their property outside of McCarthy.  In ruling for NPS, the court made it clear that any access request must be analyzed by NPS for possible impacts to park resources.

2004 – Two deaths by grizzly bear mauling at Katmai National Park and the subsequent killing of two bears caused NPCA to call for camping closures at critically important bear feeding areas to prevent this kind of tragedy from occurring again.  Katmai implemented its first camping closure in summer 2004 at Halo Bay.  NPCA’s Alaska Office organized strong support for this closure among other conservation groups and individuals.

2003 – NPCA releases its State of the Parks report for Denali National Park revealing that the natural landscape and wildlife of Denali are in good health and deserving of its high rating of 94 (out of a possible 100).  However, the report cautions that construction of a proposed 90-mile road or railroad through the north side of the park could be extremely harmful and change this status.  The report also states that Denali’s cultural sites – which may hold clues to how the Americas were populated – are largely unknown and unprotected and consequently received a poor rating.

2002 – Following several years of effort by the park and NPCA's Alaska Regional Office, NPS purchases the Spruce IV inholding in Denali National Park.  This parcel had been propose for development that would require additional access including construction of a 10-mile road across park land.  This has been one of the most serious threats to the integrity of Denali, and it is a notable victory for the park and NPCA.

2001 – NPCA wins a lawsuit at Glacier Bay National Park, forcing the Park Service to develop an Environmental Impact Statement assessing the potential effects on whales and other wildlife before determining increases in the number of marine vessels, including cruise ships.

2000 – NPCA leads a successful effort to develop and adopt regulations permanently protecting the wilderness and wildlife core of Denali National Park from recreational snowmobiling.  When the snowmobile industry sues to overturn the regulations, NPCA enters the case as lead intervener to defend the Park Service.