ACTION ALERT: BLM Still Pushing for Bristol Bay Mining District!

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is hosting a series of open house meetings on its Draft Resource Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/EIS) for 2.5 million acres in the Bristol Bay and Goodnews Bay region over the next couple of weeks.

As many of you know, BLM's "preferred" alternative recommends that the agency create a major new mining district on Federal land in Bristol Bay by taking the following actions:

*OPENING another 1 million acres of Bristol Bay lands to mining development, including tributaries of the Nushagak, Mulchatna, and Kvichak Rivers.

*REJECTING public nominations for a special management designation that would recognize the threats posed by the proposed Pebble Mine, and apply protections to the area's fish and wildlife habitat.

*ADOPTING changes to allow the permitting of new mining operations, which could ultimately become "sources of irretrievable loss of wildlife habitat and subsistence resources" (dRMP at 4-118)

Now is the time to TAKE ACTION! Please comment before the deadline which is January 5, 2007 or write your U.S. Senators or Congressman before it's too late to save the salmon and other wildlife of Bristol Bay.

Open pit strip mining and worldclass salmon habitat just don't mix.

You can give your Comments to:

Mark Fullmer, NEPA Coordinator
Phone: (907) 267-1264
Email: akbayrmp@blm.gov

View the BLM open house meeting schedule at: http://www.renewableresourcescoalition.org/BLM.pdf

View the draft plan on-line at: http://www.blm.gov/ak/ado/BayRMP01.html

For more information, Contact Us:

Renewable Resources Coalition, Inc.
500 L Street, Suite 502
Anchorage, AK 99501

Telephone: (907) 632-9933
Fax: (907) 272-9319
Email: info@renewableresourcescoalition.org