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Outside Magazine has an article in the June 2009 issue about the fight for Bristol Bay. One of the main persons featured in the article is none other than Lindsey Bloom, a commercial fishing captain who works for Trout Unlimited’s Alaska program when she’s not running her boat and crew. Click here for a photo gallery of images from the story.
- The-Fisheries.net is a relatively new sportfishing Web site. They just posted an interview with Dr. Carol Ann Woody, a fisheries research scientist working in Bristol Bay, about the efforts to document waterways that are important for salmon in the Bristol Bay region. This is an important aspect to the Bristol Bay campaign, and having documented scientific evidence of salmon habitat will be helpful in the fight to protect the Bay’s resources.
- June 2009 – Click here to view a series of new educational/science ads being run by some of SAA's allies in Alaska – the Renewable Resources Coalition and Renewable Resources Foundation. The ads focus on effects of copper on salmon, the amount of water it would take to operate Pebble Mine, and the risk of seismic activity in the Bristol Bay region. The ads most recently ran in Kenai, Seward, and in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley.
- May 2009 –Click here for an article on Bristol Bay and Pebble Mine from the current issue of Salmon & Steelhead Journal (PDF File Size 390k). The article is written by a great guy that lives on the Kenai Peninsula and works for the Renewable Resources Foundation to protect Bristol Bay.
- Summer 2009 – The Summer 2009 issue of the Nature Conservancy magazine features a great story about the scientific work being done to study the salmon runs in Bristol Bay, and includes some good images.
- Spring 2009 – The spring 2009 issue of the National Parks Conservation Association magazine has a fine article about the potential impact on Lake Clark National Park and Preserve by the proposed Pebble Mine. Read the Pebble Mine article in NPCA magazine.
- Mar. 31, 2009 – Anchorage Daily News article, "Anglo American mining executive visits Alaska," PEBBLE PROSPECT: Moody-Stuart defends mining giant's record.
- Mar. 28, 2009 – SAA Director Scott Hed was interviewed on the Dan Small Outdoors Radio program about the Bristol Bay campaign. Listen to Episode 413 here, and skip to the 19:00 mark to listen to just the SAA interview.
- Mar. 28, 2009 – The Chairman of London-based Anglo-American (major partner in the Pebble Mine proposal) visited Dillingham, Alaska, on the weekend of March 28. View a press release about Dillingham’s response to the visit HERE along with pictures of the rally HERE.
- Mar. 6, 2009 – Interview with Alaska Master Hunting Guide Tony Lee about Bristol Bay/Pebble Mine. View video here.
- Mar. 6, 2009 – SAA Director Scott Hed interviewed at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Elk Camp event in Fort Worth TX. View video here.
- Mar. 3, 2009 – Outdoor Life magazine’s March 2009 issue has a short Q&A with Lauren Oakes of Trout Unlimited’s Alaska office about the “Red Gold” film project. Click here (to open PDF) to read it. Also, another interview with Travis Rummel the co-director of “Red Gold” at Felt Soul Media can be found online at Outdoor Life's Web site.
- Mar. 1, 2009 – SAA Director Scott Hed was interviewed by Lee Murdock of FlyFishMagazine.com at a sport show in Charlotte in February. Check out the interview here.
- Feb. 12, 2009 – Read a brand new article about the Pebble Mine project and the battle for Bristol Bay in the March issue of Men’s Journal ...
- Feb. 3, 2009 – The Orvis News recently ran another story on Bristol Bay. Read the article here ...
- Jan. 30, 2009 – Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska Teams Up with StoneFly Vineyards - Raising a Glass to Watershed Conservation in Bristol Bay. More ...
- Special Edition “No Pebble Mine / James Prosek Sockeye Salmon” T-Shirt Now Available! More ...
- Oct. 1, 2008 – Field & Stream, Salmon Paradise Under Fire. Take a trip with Hal Herring to fish Alaska's Koktuli River, one of the salmon fisheries threatened by the effects of the Pebble Mine.
- On Aug. 27, 2008 the Renewable Resources Coalition (RRC) published a news release stating, "The RRC would like to acknowledge the tens of thousands of Alaskans who supported Proposition 4 as we did and the hundreds of volunteers who worked so diligently on this issue. The fight to save Bristol Bay’s wild salmon is hardly over, and the results of this election simply show how much work we still have ahead of us." Read more ...
- July 31, 2008 – Letter from the American Sportfishing Association (ASA) to Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska regarding Proposals to Create Mining District in Portions of Bristol Bay Watershed. Read it now ...
- Summer 2008 – Click here to read an article by David Oakes of Dallas Safari Club about the field trip organized by SAA that brought delegates from leading hunting conservation groups to Southeast Alaska in the summer of 2007 to learn about management of the Tongass National Forest (PDF File Size 1273 k).
- July 2008 edition of Fish Alaska magazine features an article by Troy Letherman, "Hard-rock Mining, Pebble and the Fight for Iliamna." Read it now ...
- July 4, 2008 – EFTTA members pledge support to Alaskan Bristol Bay campaign. More ...
- On May 16, 2008, the Secretary of Interior announced that the BLM would defer additional oil and gas leasing around Teshekpuk Lake. More ...
- Special News Report, "The Battle of Bristol Bay" from the March 2008 issue of Angling International. Read the full article ...
- On Jan. 25, 2008, the U.S. Forest Service released the new Tongass Land Management Plan. More ...
- Read Kirk Deeter's March 2008 Field & Stream article, "Salmon Roulette." Graphics show how open pit mines operate and the author writes about how Pebble Mine could destroy one of the world's best fisheries.
- Abel (www.abelreels.com) will produce a limited edition of engraved red reels and donate a portion of the proceeds to the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska. Read the Press Release ...
- A recent article by Joseph E. Daniel in Wild On The Fly magazine (www.wildonthefly.com) summarizes the mining threat to Bristol Bay, Alaska. Download and read the article (PDF file size 591k) ...
- Want more information about Bristol Bay and Pebble Mine? Read Bill Battles' recent article in Fly Fish America magazine titled, "Ground Zero - Where Water is More Precious Than Gold."
- Read about one of the leaders of the resistance to Pebble Mine, Brian Kraft, in American Angler magazine. Don't miss this great story by Tim Bristol, who runs Trout Unlimited’s Alaska program on the Bristol Bay area and the threat it faces from mining development. Visit AmericanAngler.com NOW ...
- Read Scott Hed's recent article from the Dallas Safari Club's Spring 2007 issue of Game Trails, "Pebble Mine Proposal Threatens Bristol Bay" (PDF file size 2.5M).
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Sport Fishing Industry Campaign
The Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska has rallied the support of many leading companies in the fly fishing industry to engage in the campaign to protect habitat in Bristol Bay that supports the world’s largest runs of wild salmon, trophy rainbow trout, brown bears, caribou, and a strong commercial and sport-fishing economy. This region has provided food for the local inhabitants for thousands of years. All of this is at risk if plans to develop a major mining district in the Bristol Bay region are not stopped.
Ads like the one below have been running in major fly fishing publications since 2007 and were designed by the Sportsman's Alliance for Alaska.
Click HERE to read the press release from Trout Unlimited and the American Fly Fishing Trade Association regarding the ads showing support for Bristol Bay’s fishery resources.
Do you support the Pebble Mine project?
You might, even if you don’t realize it.
The major companies in the Pebble Mine project are Northern Dynasty (NAK), Anglo-American (AAUK) and Rio Tinto (RTP). If you hold any of these mutual funds in your portfolio, you could be passively supporting the Pebble Mine.
Click HERE for the latest listing (Sept. 28, 2008) of mutual funds which hold stock in these mining companies.
Disclaimer: Funds buy and sell assets often, so it’s important to have your advisor double check. This information will be updated periodically on this Web page. This type of investing is known as “socially responsible investing” and is gaining publicity and momentum. Simply ask your investment professional if there are other funds with similar (or better!) returns which do not hold stocks in the Pebble project partners.
"Wild Heritage" article in Sporting Classics
By Todd Tanner
In case you haven’t heard, we’re getting ready to trade part of the pristine wilderness that sits atop Lake Iliamna, one of North America’s most important angling destinations, for a pile of gold and copper. And if, in our shortsightedness and greed, the Pebble Mine happens to destroy what may well be the finest wild trout and salmon fishery on the planet . . .
Read Todd Tanner's complete article from the January 2008 issue of Sporting Classics (PDF file size 298k).
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Thank you to Sporting Classics for allowing us to post this article.
Visit their Web site at www.sportingclassics.net.
U.S. House Passes Favorable Tongass Amendment
On June 26, 2007 the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed an amendment which helps protect the remaining road-free watersheds of the Tongass National Forest. These habitats support healthy populations of fish and game as well as the region’s commercial fishing industry and a growing outdoor recreation industry which includes sport fishing and hunting. The ad shown below, sponsored by the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska and Wildlife Forever, ran in Congress Daily to show support from sportspersons for the amendment.
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