Photo by Tim Romano Step 1: Take a deep breath. Really. Have you done it? Ok good. Now keep reading. On Friday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers accepted Pebble’s application for permits to mine in Bristol Bay. Step 2: repeat step one. The fact that the Pebble mine proposal even got this far is
Two great American landscapes face unprecedented threats from very different sources, but both have a bright future if the right decisions are made at the right time
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nelli Williams, Trout Unlimited Alaska, (907) 230-7121 or nwilliams@tu.org Proposed Pebble mine Environmental Impact Statement shows clear impact to American jobs, fisheries, recreation; Orvis, local lodges among groups requesting President to uphold jobs, businesses, sporting paradise. ANCHORAGE, AK — A final environmental analysis for the proposed Pebble mine released today shows
An early-morning scroll through my twitter feed woke me up much faster than the first couple sips I’d had on my coffee.
A good friend of mine worked with a women’s group at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago one summer during college. The federal prison famously has these tall, 5-inch wide windows, originally made to be narrow enough that they didn’t require bars. My friend told me that when new women moved in, they complained
Cartoon by Michael O’Meara The past several months the Pebble Partnership, who aims to develop the highly controversial and widely opposed Pebble Mine in Bristol, Bay Alaska, has been touting their new mine plans to Alaskans in hopes of winning them over with new “smaller ” and “safer” design claims. Alaskans see through the rhetoric
Heidi and a Bear Trail Lodge client with a nice Bristol Bay rainbow. Photo courtesy of Heidi Wild Re-posted from the Peninsula Clarion. By: Heidi Wild In 2018, Bristol Bay broke the record of returning wild sockeye salmon. As the rest of the state closes to salmon fishing, Bristol Bay is breaking records. I’m stunned
Simply put, the rivers you will see in Koktuli Wild are ground zero for impacts from the Pebble mine if it were to go through.
Alaska Program Director Nelli Williams recaps last week’s trip to DC to advocate for Bristol Bay with industry reps and local lodge owners.
The place you catch a rainbow trout as big as a silver salmon is a place you hold with reverence. A place you plan to someday return.
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On Monday, June 17, nearly 50 sport-fishing and recreation businesses from the Bristol Bay region submitted a letter to members of Congress urging them to vote ‘yes’ on the House Energy and Water Appropriations bill amendment that would defund the Army Corps of Engineers’ review of Pebble’s key permit application. Click here to tell your
In December 2017, Northern Dynasty filed for their 404 Wetlands Dredge and Fill Permit, one of the critical permits that they need to operate the mine and more specifically, rip up wetlands and fill them with mine waste. By filing for their 404 permit, Pebble’s backers officially kicked off the permitting process for the project
Like many other small business owners in the region, Matt and Meghan are stewards of the most prolific sockeye salmon fishery on the planet. They’re part of a community that supports 20,000 American jobs, a $1.5 billion economy, a world-class hunting and fishing destination, and the subsistence and cultural traditions of the native people of the Bristol Bay region.
05/20/2009 Deadliest Catch Captain Sig Hansen and Crew Call Pebble Mine a Disaster for Alaska; May 20, 2009 Contact: Nelli Williams Program Director Trout Unlimited Alaska Program 907-770-1776 nwilliams@tu.org Deadliest Catch Captain Sig Hansen and Crew Call Pebble Mine a Disaster for Alaska; Celebrity Crab Fishermen ask Gov. Sarah Palin to Halt Project (ANCHORAGE, May
Contact: Chris Wood, President and CEO, Trout Unlimited, (703) 284-9403 Tim Bristol, Director, TU Alaska Program (907) 321-3291 Rob Masonis, Vice president for Western Conservation, TU, (206) 491-9016 Steve Moyer, Vice president for Government Affairs, TU (703) 284-9406 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sportsmen Pleased with Decision to put Clean Water Act into Action in Bristol Bay
Contact: Nelli Williams, Deputy Director, Trout Unlimited, Alaska Program, at nwilliamstu@gmail.com or (907) 230-7121 For immediate release American Military Women to Enjoy Once-in-a-Lifetime Fishing Trip to Bristol Bay, Alaska Excursion Designed to Honor Their Service to the Nation ANCHORAGE, ALASKA Four U.S. military service members all women will spend time in Bristol Bay, Alaska, next
By Chris Wood Some bad ideas rise above others: New Coke, Diet Water, the Red Sox trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees. One of the worst ideas of all time? The proposal to build a mine in the headwaters of Bristol Bay, Alaska. Scientists during the during the Obama Administration said the mine was too
Nov. 4, 2015 Contact: Nelli Williams, Director of Trout Unlimiteds Alaska Program, (907) 230-7121 or nwilliams@tu.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sportsmen urge Congress to listen to facts, not Pebble Limited Partnership-funded propaganda campaign The House Science, Space and Technology committee hearing’s review of the EPA process distracts from the mining companys failure to file for permits
We are officially half way through the Army Corps of Engineers’ 90-day public comment period on the draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Pebble mine and it is clear that Alaskans are not impressed.
