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About Save Bristol Bay
Trout Unlimited’s Alaska Program works to preserve, protect and restore wild salmon and trout populations throughout Alaska. Through sound scientific data, strong grassroots outreach and advocacy, and hands-on involvement in conservation projects we protect some of the most pristine and prized rivers on the planet, restore those that need some help, and engage the next generation of coldwater stewards in Alaska’s natural heritage.
September 2009
Survey shows strong opposition to Pebble Mine
Anchorage, Alaska--A new survey sampling a cross-section of Bristol Bay
residents shows widespread disapproval of the proposed Pebble Mine, and
Native Alaskan groups now are stepping up their calls for mining
companies to abandon the project. Read more.
Saving Salmon
LAX Magazine published a story this summer about Bristol Bay and
Trout Unlimited Alaska’s campaign to save the world’s largest sockeye
salmon run from the threat of industrial-scale mining. Read the article
here:
Sarah Palin: Use Celebrity Status to Protect Bristol Bay
Sport fishing guide and Trout Unlimited member Nanci Morris Lyon
appeals to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to use her national celebrity
to protect the world-class salmon fishery in Bristol Bay. Read her
column here:
Hunters and Anglers To Salazar: Keep BLM Lands in Bristol Bay Off-Limits to Mining
Organized by Trout Unlimited, hundreds of hunting and fishing groups representing millions of America’s conservationists and anglers, outfitters, guides, lodge owners and others have asked Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Bob Abbey to protect from mining 1.1 million acres of federal fish and wildlife habitat near Bristol Bay, Alaska. This large swath of BLM land is near one of the world’s most productive salmon and rainbow trout fisheries.
Poll Finds Bristol Bay Residents Favor Subsistence Over Pebble Mine
A new poll released today finds an overwhelming majority of Bristol Bay residents strongly prefer their subsistence lifestyle to the promise of jobs at the pr oposed Pebble Mine.
Brothers Bicycle from Alaska to Argentina to Protect Bristol Bay Salmon
Two brothers are bicycling from Alaska to Argentina to draw
attention to Bristol Bay wild salmon and the threat the fishery faces
from a proposed open-pit copper and gold mine.