Making the Political Win to Save Bristol Bay Permanent How the Oak Foundation funded a lasting environmental legacy A national policy lifts protections on a region’s rich marine resources. Your foundation wants to invest in a campaign to fight back. How do you calibrate your support so that it achieves immediate protections while building local capacity to launch a counterattack should the political tides shift again? When the Oak Foundation decided to help the people of Bristol Bay, Alaska fight for permanent protections against offshore oil and gas drilling, it had this question in mind. “We didn’t want to be part of a classic environmental group story: they come in, they build a campaign, maybe they achieve it, and then they’re out,” says Anne Henshaw, marine conservation,

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