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Cook Inletkeeper
About Cook Inletkeeper
Cook Inletkeeper is a
community-based nonprofit organization that combines
advocacy, education and science toward its mission to
protect Alaska’s Cook Inlet watershed and the life it
sustains. Inletkeeper’s monitoring and science
work builds credibility with scientists and resource
managers, its education and advocacy efforts enhance
stewardship and citizen participation, and together, these
efforts translate into Inletkeeper’s ability to effectively
ensure a vibrant and healthy Cook Inlet watershed.
VISION
Cook Inletkeeper works to
guarantee clean water for:
Abundant Fish and Wildlife
● Strong Communities ● Lasting Jobs Renewable Energy ●
Public Property Rights
MISSION
To protect Alaska’s Cook
Inlet watershed and the life it sustains
GOALS
Goal 1:
Cook Inletkeeper builds support and positive action for
clean water, abundant fish and wildlife, and renewable
energy.
Goal 2:
Cook Inletkeeper pursues
policies that protect public property rights, wetlands,
salmon streams, and estuaries that are necessary to sustain
healthy communities and strong local economies.
Goal 3:
Cook Inletkeeper strives to build a sustainable and healthy
organization with the capacity to achieve its vision for
Alaska’s Cook Inlet watershed.
VALUES
CLEAN WATER:
Clean
water is essential. Cook Inletkeeper is first and
foremost in the business of protecting
water quality and quantity, because we all need clean water.
Lasting livable wage jobs, strong local economies, and human
health all depend on a clean environment. Cook
Inletkeeper embraces the inherent connections between
people, the economy, and the environment.
RESPECT & FAIRNESS:
All people have
an equal right to the essential necessities of life
including clean water to drink, clean air to breathe, and
healthy food for sustenance. Cook Inletkeeper believes
these basic and fundamental human rights are inherent and
must be upheld with respect.
LOCAL CONTROL &
RESPONSIBILITY: Local
people have a right and responsibility to guide the course
of their community. Cook Inletkeeper believes that
decisions made at all levels should involve the local
community and reflect the interests of the local people who
are most affected by those decisions.
KNOWLEDGE & INTEGRITY: Knowledge
and facts are essential for guiding responsible and honest
decisions. Cook Inletkeeper is committed to integrity
and bases its actions on timely and accurate information and
sound science derived from defensible methods. Cook
Inletkeeper openly shares this science and knowledge with
the public, media and policymakers.
SEDNA LOGO
Cook Inlet Inletkeeper has embraced “Sedna” –
a mythological goddess of the sea – as its logo. Maritime
cultures throughout the world have mythologies built around a
sea goddess whose role it is to protect the ocean’s creatures
and assure proper action in order to be successful in hunting
and gathering resources from the sea. The Inuit peoples of the
Arctic describe Sedna as the Mother of Sea Beasts, one of the
primal forces of nature. During a dispute she was thrown out of
a kayak and while trying to get back in her fingers were
severed. Her fingers grew into fish, seals, whales,
and all of the other sea mammals. She lives eternally on the
ocean’s bottom and her tragic story explains the creation of all
sea life. As a life-death symbol, she is feared and demanding.
Proper action and due respect is required of us humans if we are
to live harmoniously with nature and reap the ocean’s bounty.
We have chosen the Sedna symbol to convey our program of caring,
vigilance and responsibility.
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