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 Coho salmon pair. Credit: USFS
Coho salmon pair.  Credit: USFS

For thousands of years, Alaska's Bristol Bay Watershed has been one of the most productive salmon ecosystems on Earth. Today, Bristol Bay supports the world’s greatest commercial salmon fishery, a thriving subsistence fishery, and world-renowned sport fishing for salmon and trout. 

Despite the region's importance to salmon and the people who depend upon them, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wants to open the Bristol Bay Watershed to mineral entry and development throughout the enormous 3.6 million acre region.   

 Credit: Alaska Sportsman's Lodge
Credit: Alaska
Sportsman's Lodge

Say NO to the Bristol Bay Mining District! 
The BLM is currently accepting public comments on the development of a new resource management plan for 3.6 million acres of public land in the Bristol Bay region.  One of the objectives of the plan is to evaluate whether the lands currently closed to mining should be opened.  If the BLM does not hear from the public that these lands should be kept closed, the end result could be wide-spread claim-staking and large-scale mining.

Please TAKE ACTION before March 5th to protect the world’s richest salmon fishery.  

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