Protect Alaska’s Public Lands from Mining and Oil and Gas Drilling

The Biden administration’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently took a huge step toward maintaining important protections for 28 million acres of public lands across Alaska, safeguarding them from destructive industrial development like mining and oil and gas drilling. Tell the Dept. of Interior to finalize these vital protections.

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Urge the Department of Interior to keep pristine Alaskan lands protected.

Alaska D-1 public lands like in Bristol Bay.

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The Biden administration’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently took a huge step toward maintaining important protections for 28 million acres of public lands across Alaska.

Now, the administration must issue a final decision that safeguards those lands from destructive industrial development like mining and oil and gas drilling.

We have 30 days to mobilize massive public support for keeping these cherished public lands protected, and we need your help. Please send a message to the Biden administration now.

Some of the largest intact landscapes left in the U.S. are in Alaska, providing homes for Indigenous communities and habitat and refuge for caribou, moose, bears, all five species of Pacific salmon, migratory birds, and countless other wildlife. These treasured lands support communities, cultural resources, subsistence resources, and recreation like hunting and fishing. And they’re at the forefront of the climate crisis.

Losing these protections would open sensitive areas like lands within Alaska’s Bristol Bay, where we’re already fighting to stop the Pebble Mine and other proposed mining projects. The Bristol Bay watershed alone supplies more than half the world’s sockeye salmon, and the fishery supports 15,000 jobs and generates $2.2 billion annually.

Send a message to the Department of Interior now urging the agency to maintain vital protections for Alaska’s public lands.

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Subject Protect Alaska’s public lands

Dear Interior Secretary Haaland:

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Your Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently took a huge step toward maintaining protections for 28 million acres of public lands across Alaska, safeguarding them from destructive industrial development like mining and oil and gas drilling. Please finalize these vital protections for the sake of Indigenous communities, wildlife and their habitats, and our climate.

Losing these protections will open sensitive areas like land within Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed, which supplies more than half the world’s sockeye salmon and supports 15,000 jobs and generates $2.2 billion annually.

Please do your part to defend our public lands by maintaining these protections under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Thank you.

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