Who
Fairbanks North Star Borough
- Borough Assembly: https://co.fairbanks.ak.us/Directory.aspx?DID=64
- Or send an email to: assembly@fnsb.us
- Assembly members represent all citizens of the borough. They don’t represent specific regions.
- Borough Mayor’s Office: https://co.fairbanks.ak.us/Directory.aspx?DID=53
- Borough departments: https://co.fairbanks.ak.us/Directory.aspx
Fairbanks City
- Fairbanks City Mayor: https://www.fairbanksalaska.us/mayor/webform/contact-mayor
- Fairbanks City Council: https://www.fairbanksalaska.us/citycouncil/webform/contact-council
- City departments: https://www.fairbanksalaska.us/contact
Alaska State Government
- Alaska House of Representatives: http://akleg.gov/house.php
- Use “Who Represents Me?” box in lower right, if you don’t know your legislators
- Alaska Senate: http://akleg.gov/senate.php
- Use “Who Represents Me?” box in lower right, if you don’t know your legislators.
- Alaska State Public Opinion Message System: https://www.akleg.gov/poms/
- Quick way to reach all legislators for short messages
- Alaska Governor: http://gov.alaska.gov/contact/
- State departments: https://www.alaska.gov/akdir1.htm
Federal representatives
- Sen. Lisa Murkowski: https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact
- Sen. Dan Sullivan: https://www.sullivan.senate.gov/contact
- Rep. Don Young: https://donyoung.house.gov/contact/
- President (White House): https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/#page
How: Time + Energy = Impact
Generally speaking, the more time and energy you spend on advocating, the more impact your efforts will have. Here’s a rough list of actions you can take, with the first listed as having the most impact:
- Personal appearance (Visit or testimony)
- The Alaska State Legislature has a text-messaging service to help Alaskans keep track of legislation and opportunities to testify publicly. Text the bill’s abbreviation (as an example, text SB39 for Senate Bill 39) to 559-245-2529 to enroll in text alerts.
- Phone call
- Letters (Mailed or emailed)
- Sign-on letters, petitions
- Facebook Likes
- Doing nothing
What to Advocate For
To learn what issues to advocate for consider these sources:
- Interior Alaska: Interior Trails Newsletter
- To get on distribution list send email to: fbxtrails (at) gmail.com
- Statewide: Alaska Trails newsletter
- To get on distribution list send email to: office.alaskatrails (at) gmail.com
- Nationwide: American Trails (https://www.americantrails.org/)