E360 Film Contest

In “Land Less” — the Third-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — filmmaker Alexi Liotti follows the activists fighting a bill that would transfer thousands of acres of Alaskan rainforest to five Native corporations, opening the land to logging.

2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest

More than half a century ago, the U.S. Congress transferred 44 million acres of public lands in Alaska to for-profit Native corporations, which have been free to exploit those lands, including by logging them. Last year, the state’s congressional delegation introduced a new bill, the Alaska Native Landless Equity Act, which would transfer an additional 115,000 acres from the Tongass National Forest — the world’s largest temperate rainforest — to five newly formed Native corporations. Those lands contain 80,000 acres of ancient forest, including 60,000 roadless acres.…