Stop Trump from destroying Alaska's Bristol Bay!

A foreign mining corporation wants to build a monstrous open pit mine at the headwaters of Alaska’s Bristol Bay – home to the largest and most productive wild salmon runs on Earth. Scientific review says it will cause irreversible damage.
In 2014, the EPA initiated a plan to protect the salmon in response to urgent requests from Alaska commercial fishermen, tribes, hunters and anglers, restaurants, supermarkets, churches, conservationists and activists like you.
Now, the Trump Administration wants to reverse course on those protections and help Pebble Mine destroy Bristol Bay.


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Canadian Mines Threaten Alaska Salmon Streams

In Northwest British Columbia, Canada, a modern-day gold rush is underway that could threaten Southeast Alaska’s salmon, rivers, fishing and tourism jobs, and unique way of life. Spurred by weakened environmental and fishery regulations and the construction of a massive new power line, at least ten large-scale mines are under consideration or development.
Most of these Canadian mineral projects are located in transboundary watersheds of key salmon rivers that flow into Southeast Alaska. The Taku, Stikine and Unuk watersheds are the cultural and economic lifeblood of Southeast Alaska. The mines are likely to produce acid mine drainage and toxic heavy metals.
Stakeholders on both sides of the border are asking for the International Joint Commission (IJC) to help resolve these issues. The next IJC meeting is April 18th.
Take Action: Tell the State Department to Protect Alaska Waters!


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Protect Wild Alaskan Caribou, Sheep and Salmon

Protect Caribou, Dall Sheep, and Salmon Streams
Home to the renowned Porcupine caribou herd, moose, Dall sheep, and crystal-clear salmon streams, Alaska’s Eastern Interior remains one of our nation’s largest and wildest natural areas.

Create an Area of Critical Environmental Concern
The Bureau of Land Management is taking public comment on the creation of Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs) that would provide protections for wildlife and important habitat. Wildlife that is vital to the communities that live in the region.

Protect land near the Fortymile Wild and Scenic River
Two areas proposed for protection would help preserve important wild lands near the Fortymile Wild and Scenic River and the Mosquito Flats high-mountain wetlands. The area has a stunning diversity and abundance of wildlife, including healthy populations of grizzly bears, wolves, wolverines, raptors, and arctic foxes.

Urge the BLM to protect these wild places for the wildlife that live there, the communities that rely on them, and for the future!


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Protect the Misty Fjords from the KSM mega-mine

Southeast Alaska’s vast "transboundary" rivers (so-called because they flow from Canada into the U.S.) are the lifeblood of Alaska's fishing economy and Native cultures. And they're threatened by large-scale mining in their Canadian headwaters.
In July, Canada's federal government released its final environmental assessment of the proposed KSM mine—a mine on the Canadian/Alaska border that rivals the size and scope of the highly controversial proposed Pebble Mine. The KSM deposit sits at the headwaters of the salmon-rich Unuk River above Misty Fiords National Monument near Ketchikan, Alaska.
Alaskan tribes, fishermen and businesses are concerned that the KSM mine, with its three open pits and large tailings and waste rock dumps, will produce billions of tons of acid-generating waste.
And there's something you can do to help.
Canadian mine proposals that pose great environmental risk can, and should, be scrutinized with a “Panel Review.” A Panel Review of KSM would consider the mine's negative impacts on Alaska's fish, Native cultures, and water.
TAKE ACTION: Please act now to urge Canada's federal government to conduct a panel review of the proposed KSM Mine.


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Alaska: no a la minería en áreas de conservación

Don't allow mining in conservation and recreation areas

Alaska possesses some of the most remote wild places remaining in the United States. In the Eastern Interior of Alaska, three areas have achieved national management designations for their unique characteristics for recreation, wildlife, habitat and subsistence:

- The Steese National Conservation Area was set aside to restore the Birch Creek National Wild and Scenic River, and protect caribou and Dall sheep habitat;
- The White Mountains National Recreation Area was specifically set aside for recreation;
- The Fortymile Wild and Scenic River corridor was established to maintain and improve fish and wildlife habitat.

Now the American public has a chance to weigh in on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) draft Resource Management Plan, which proposes to open the area to hardrock mineral leasing.
TAKE ACTION: Tell BLM to maintain existing protections, and not to allow hardrock mineral leasing in conservation and recreation areas.


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Sign the petition to protect Alaska's Bristol Bay...

Sign the petition to protect Alaska's Bristol Bay from an open pit gold mine

Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed supports the world’s largest remaining wild salmon fishery.
Year after year, the salmon return to Bristol Bay in astounding numbers, like no other place on earth. The fishery supports an abundance of bears, whales, eagles and sustains the Alaska Native communities that rely on the salmon as their primary source of food.
Unfortunately, the Pebble Mine proposal threatens Bristol Bay.
The mine is projected to be the largest in North America, generating as much as 10 billion tons of toxic mine waste and destroying salmon habitat.
Fortunately, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has authority under the Clean Water Act to restrict mine waste dumping in the pristine waters and wetlands of the Bristol Bay watershed. And they're deciding soon whether to use it.


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