2025
Final PEL Study Report, July 2025
Featuring 1,000s of pages of public comments — overwhelmingly in support of protecting the wetlands and wildlife Refuge.
- Juneau Douglas North Crossing Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) Study
- Appendix 14: YOUR Public Comments
- Access to all other appendices (1-13)
2024
Second Crossing Public Forum, September 2024
If you missed the packed public forum, you can catch up on presentations here.
Second Crossing – 1984-2024
40 years of attempts to justify a second crossing between Juneau and Douglas Island
- Previous Studies of a Second Crossing (DOWL, 2022)
- 2004-2010: Juneau Second Channel Crossing
- 2022-2024: Juneau Douglas North Crossing PEL Study
- Purpose & Need, Screening Criteria
- Level 1 Screening Results
- Field Work in Sep-Oct 2023: Bird Habitat Report, Intertidal Habitat Report, Wetland Delineation and Functional Assessment, Eelgrass Report, Bridge Volume Forecast
- Draft Level 2 Screening Results: Impact Table, Scoring of Alternatives
- Salmon Creek Alternative Removal Memo revising Level 1 Screening in July 2024
Second Crossing Comments from Stakeholders & Habitat Leaders:
Mendenhall Wetlands Study Group
- Comments on Preliminary Alternatives – January 2023
- Comments on Draft Level 2 Screening Results – April 2024
- Comments on Purpose & Need, Selection Criteria, Map – December 2022
- Comments on Preliminary Alternatives – February 2023
- Testimony to CBJ Assembly – March 2023
- Comments on Level 1 Screening Results – March 2023
- Comments on Draft Level 2 Screening Results – April 2024
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers – April 2024
Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition
- Comments on Level 1 Screening Results – February 2023
- Comments on Level 2 Screening Results – March 2024
North Douglas Neighborhood Association
- Comments on Level 1 Screening Results – March 2023
- Comments on Draft Level 2 Screening Results – April 2024
- Letter to the CBJ Assembly – August 2024
Sunny Point Neighborhood Association
Alaska Department of Fish & Game – April 2024
U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service – April 2024
Juneau Airport Board – December 2023
In the News:
- “Hunting and Fishing Opportunities Threatened on Mendenhall State Game Refuge”—Alaska BHA, April 30, 2024
- “Sunny Point route near airport runway gets highest score for second Juneau-Douglas crossing”—Juneau Empire, March 11, 2024
- “The Second Crossing and Southeast Alaska’s Mendenhall Wetlands Important Bird Area”—Audubon Alaska, March 5, 2024
- “Second Juneau-Douglas crossing to cost about $400M, be completed by 2030, in revised state transportation plan”—Juneau Empire, March 4, 2024
- “New wetland habitat maps will help capture Juneau’s ‘wildlife and fish factory’”—KTOO, February 8, 2024
- “Plans for the Juneau-Douglas second crossing gain momentum with new federal funding”—KTOO, June 29, 2023
- “Roads, bridges, trails, ports: White House awards $2.2B in transportation grants”—Alaska Beacon, June 28, 2023
- “Feds award $16.5M toward design of second Juneau-Douglas Crossing”—Juneau Empire, June 28, 2023
- “Douglas Island second crossing faces opposition to proposed routes through Mendenhall Wetlands”—KTOO, February 1, 2023
- “Opinion: The Mendenhall Wetlands — a Juneau treasure”—Juneau Empire, January 27, 2023
Audio & Video:
PODCAST: On Step Alaska’s Jeff Lund + Mary Glaves
VIDEO: Wetland Birds & Conservation on Taashuyee
