One of world's top experts in river ecology, who began his professional career in the Nushagak River drainage, has published an opinion piece that refutes some of the more outlandish claims made recently by the Pebble Limited Partnership. Among other things, PLP executives have actually stated in public forums of late that the giant copper and gold deposit they want to develop is NOT located in the headwaters of Bristol Bay. Read what Jack Stanford, PhD, of the University of Montana has to say about this and other misstatements by the Pebble developers.