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December 30, 2012 – The fishing blog MidCurrent posted a great short video titled Bristol Bay Treasure that features what’s at stake in Bristol Bay in the debate over the proposed Pebble Mine.
December 29, 2012 – The Alaska Dispatch ran an opinion editorial from a pro-Pebble advocate critical of the EPA’s watershed assessment process in Bristol Bay.
December 28, 2012 – The Bristol Bay Times reports that Alaska’s Lieutenant Governor has certified the Bristol Bay Forever citizen’s ballot initiative, which aims to protect Bristol Bay’s salmon resources from proposed large-scale mining in the region.
December 28, 2012 – The hired-by-the-Pebble-Partnership independent (open to interpretation) Keystone Center released the videos of its October 2012 science panels.
December 21, 2012 – The Dutch Harbor Fisherman ran an opinion editorial from two members of the Curyung Tribal Council that highlights the risks identified by the independent peer review panel (part of the EPA’s Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment process) to the Bristol Bay watershed from the proposed Pebble Mine.
December 19, 2012 – Alaska Business Monthly reports that US Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, announced the Integrated Activity Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement for the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska. The plan allows for development of over 70% of the estimated economically recoverable oil in the Reserve while protecting some of the most critical wildlife habitat and vital subsistence resources for Alaska natives.
December 19, 2012 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it will continue work to complete the draft Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment into 2013.
December 18, 2012 – The Save Bristol Bay campaign posted a 2012 Year in Review that has some good, concise information.
December 17, 2012 – The January 2013 issue of Seattle Magazine makes the case for why the debate over Bristol Bay and the proposed Pebble Mine matters to Seattle.
December 10, 2012 – A Georgia Congressman who chairs a House oversight subcommittee is attacking the EPA over its draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment per the Anchorage Daily News.
December 10, 2012 – This opinion editorial in the Anchorage Daily News discusses the recent petition to have the population of freshwater seals found in Lake Iliamna listed on the Endangered Species List.
December 7, 2012 – The team at the Recycled Fish "On Ice" Tour is spreading the word about the proposed Pebble Mine at ice fishing events across the country. Read a column from Recycled Fish’s Program Director that is in publications around the Midwest.
December 5, 2012 – If you’re interested, here is the latest presentation about the proposed Pebble Mine from one of the developers, Northern Dynasty Minerals.
November 30, 2012 – The EPA will conduct a second level of peer review to the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment, per this report in the Bristol Bay Times.
November 30, 2012 – The Daily Caller details efforts by House Republicans to attack EPA’s work to study the potential effects of large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay watershed.
November 30, 2012 – In the third of four installments, the Britsol Bay Times continues reviewing the comments of the independent peer review panel to the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
November 29, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News features an opinion editorial by a young Alaska native resident and commercial/subsistence fisherwoman that discusses the meeting of Alaska native leaders taking place this week and the fact that the Alaska Department of Natural Resources has not paid attention to the concerns of Alaska natives over the proposed Pebble Mine.
November 28, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News features an opinion editorial that makes the case that the proponents of Pebble Mine are diverting attention away from the mountain of studies that show a mine in Bristol Bay will proved detrimental to the region’s salmon runs.
November 27, 2012 – E&E News reports that Congressional oversight of the EPA’s work in Bristol Bay and lobbying on both sides of the Pebble Mine debate are heating up.
November 24, 2012 – The Bristol Bay Times begins a four-part series covering the findings and recommendations of the independent peer review panel to the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
November 24, 2012 – A religious leader wrote an opinion editorial about the proposed Pebble Mine in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader.
November 22, 2012 / The Alaska Dispatch has an opinion editorial about the dangers of the proposed Susitna Dam and why this monstrosity is not needed.
November 20, 2012 – The November-December issue of Audubon magazine has a feature article by noted conservation writer Ted Williams about Bristol Bay and the proposed Pebble Mine.
November 19, 2012 – Bill Carter, the author of the new release Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story About Copper, the Metal that Runs the World, uses the proposed Pebble Mine as an example of the cost of copper extraction in the Huffington Post.
November 19, 2012 – One of the planet’s only populations of freshwater seals is found in Lake Iliamna, near the proposed Pebble Mine. Now a group is petitioning to have these seals granted endangered species protection, per the Anchorage Daily News.
November 18, 2012 – A second-generation Bristol Bay fishing guide wrote a letter to the editor about the proposed Pebble Mine in the Billings Gazette.
November 18, 2012 – In an Alaska Dispatch opinion editorial, a lifelong Bristol Bay subsistence fisherman proposes that Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll take the proposed Pebble Mine idea with her when she departs the company in coming months.
November 18, 2012 – Responses to the EPA’s peer review comments from both sides of the Pebble Mine debate are covered by the Bristol Bay Times.
November 16, 2012 – National Geographic has a very good, concise update on the proposed Pebble Mine issue in Bristol Bay.
November 15, 2012 – A 30-year Bristol Bay commercial fishing veteran wrote an opinion editorial challenging former Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski’s comparison of the Pebble Mine and the debate over oil development on Alaska’s North Slope in the Alaska Dispatch.
November 14, 2012 – The Redoubt Reporter has a feature on the EPA’s assessment of the importance of salmon to subsistence cultures in the Bristol Bay region.
November 14, 2012 – One of the partners in the proposed Pebble Mine project just increased its holdings in the Bristol Bay region, according to Daily Finance. Northern Dynasty Minerals acquired a portion of the “Big Chunk” property which is adjacent to the Pebble project, making it clear that mining in the region would likely be more than just the Pebble Mine.
November 11, 2012 – The CEO of the Pebble Limited Partnership wrote an opinion editorial in the Fairbanks News-Miner defending the Keystone Center’s review process of Pebble’s baseline environmental data. Keystone was paid by Pebble for their work on the review process.
November 11, 2012 – The mining blog I Think Mining continued its coverage of the Pebble Mine issue with a commentary on the recently released Final Peer Review Report on the draft Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment.
November 9, 2012 – The EPA released the Final Peer Review Report for the draft Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment, moving the agency one step closer to a Final Watershed Assessment. News coverage from the Alaska Dispatch, Alaska Waypoints, and the Associated Press.
November 9, 2012 – Trout Unlimited’s Alaska program issued a press release in response to EPA’s release of the Final Peer Review Report on the draft Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment.
November 5, 2012 – Fox News Latino declares that the future of Alaska’s “red gold” is in the hands of the next President of the USA. (You’ll need to have your browser translate from Spanish.)
November 2, 2012 – The Cordova Times ponders what changes could be in store for the proposed Pebble Mine after the upcoming departure of Anglo American’s CEO.
November 2, 2012 – A Minnesota family with three generations of commercial fishing in Bristol Bay is featured in their local paper, the Morrison County Record.
November 1, 2012 – A new report highlights the benefits and methods for restoring clear-cut forests in Southeast Alaska.
October 29, 2012 – A board member of the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association had a letter printed in the Wall Street Journal about the risks of the proposed Pebble Mine.
October 28, 2012 – A Bristol Bay sportfishing outfitter addressed the fact that the Pebble Partnership discounted the contributions of sport fishing in Bristol Bay’s economy through the Keystone process in a Fairbanks News-Miner opinion editorial.
October 27, 2012 – Here’s an interesting look at commercial fishing and processing in Bristol Bay, complete with slide show.
October 26, 2012 – The Associated Press reports that a ballot initiative has been filed for inclusion on the 2014 Alaska statewide ballot to require legislative approval for large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay region. More details on the Bristol Bay Forever initiative.
October 26, 2012 – The Guardian reports that under intense pressure from shareholders and battling problems over mine strikes in South Africa, Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll will resign next year.
October 25, 2012 – The Juneau Empire ran an opinion editorial calling for management of the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska to continue its move toward a focus on the sustainable economies of the forest and not revert to a timber-centric model.
October 25, 2012 – The Daily Beast reviews Boom, Bust, Boom a new book about copper, that includes a few chapters about the proposed Pebble Mine. Incidentally, the author (Bill Carter) worked as a commercial fisherman in Bristol Bay for his previous book Red Summer.
October 21, 2012 – Mining.com reports that the CEO of Anglo American (the major partner in the proposed Pebble Mine) could be ousted from the company over significant problems the company has experienced under her guidance.
October 18, 2012 – A retired successful businessman wrote an opinion editorial about the risks of the proposed Pebble Mine and the work of the EPA in the Juneau Empire.
October 16, 2012 – Here’s a video of Bristol Bay stakeholders protesting the Keystone Center review meetings in Anchorage.
October 15, 2012 – The CEO of the Pebble Limited Partnership marginalizes the sport fishing economy of Bristol Bay during the recent Keystone Center review meetings.
October 13, 2012 – A Bristol Bay native leader and longtime commercial fisherman wrote an opinion editorial in the Alaska Dispatch comparing the Pebble-funded Keystone Center’s science panel with the NFL's replacement referees.
October 7, 2012 – Watch a short sockeye salmon slide show in the New York Times online magazine.
October 7, 2012 – According to the Alaska Ear blog, the developers of the proposed Pebble Mine put out a casting call for fake scientists to promote the controversial project.
October 6, 2012 – A minister in Pennsylvania wrote an opinion editorial about Bristol Bay, it’s wild salmon and jobs, and the proposed Pebble Mine in the Harrisburg Patriot-News.
October 5, 2012 – The Bristol Bay Times features an opinion editorial by a Bristol Bay native which compares the science and dialogue procedures of the EPA’s Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment and the Pebble-funded Keystone Center hearings.
October 5, 2012 – The Bristol Bay Times reports on the start of the Keystone Center's science review panel which is meeting in Anchorage to cover the Pebble Limited Partnership’s environmental baseline documents.
October 4, 2012 – Well-known Seattle chef Tom Douglas sounded off about the proposed Pebble Mine and the need to protect Bristol Bay’s wild salmon stronghold in this Seattle magazine piece. The author sadly speculates that if Snookie or Honey Boo Boo were speaking out about this issue that it would garner more attention. (Hats off to you if you don’t know who either of those two are. Please don’t waste your time looking them up.)
October 2, 2012 – Facing the need to cut costs in a very large way, the Huffington Post proposes that Anglo-American (one of the foreign partners in the proposed Pebble Mine) scrap their plans to develop a monstrous mine in the headwaters of the world’s most productive wild salmon fishery.
October 2, 2012 – The Keystone Center’s objectivity is being questioned, as the Pebble-funded entity embarks on a set of public meetings in Anchorage to discuss the Pebble Limited Partnerships proprietary environmental baseline documents, per this story in the Anchorage Daily News. A protest of the Keystone meetings was covered by KTVA television.
October 1, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News reports that two members of the Pebble-funded review panel that is slated to discuss the Pebble Limited Partnership’s environmental baseline documents in Anchorage this week have left the panel. One resigned over concerns that not all information was available for review, and the other was dismissed over perceived bias. The story was also covered by KTUU television.
September 30, 2012 – KTUU television reports that a longtime Bristol Bay fisheries biologist is alleging huge discrepancies in salmon numbers found in data in the Pebble Limited Partnership’s environmental baseline documents. This comes on the eve of Pebble-funded public forums in Anchorage run by the Keystone Center.
September 30, 2012 – House Republicans are pressing the EPA over the agency’s work on the Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment study, according to this report in The Hill.
September 27, 2012 – The Huffington Post blog questions the “independence” of the Keystone Center’s science review panels that meets next week in Anchorage to discuss the Pebble Limited Partnership’s proprietary environmental baseline data.
September 26, 2012 – Three leaders of Bristol Bay Native Alaska groups wrote an opinion editorial touting the majority sentiment in Bristol Bay is opposed to the proposed Pebble Mine. The piece ran in The Hill's Congress Blog.
September 25, 2012 – Salon.com calls out the bogus argument in yesterday’s Politico piece from Grover Norquist which said that since the President is having the EPA consider restrictions on mining in Bristol Bay that must mean he doesn’t support renewable wind energy.
September 24, 2012 – Americans for Tax Reform wrote an opinion piece in Politico laying out the red herring argument that the White House must not support wind energy if it is having the EPA look at the potential risks to Bristol Bay posed by the proposed Pebble Mine.
September 21, 2012 – The TruthOut blog ran an editorial discussing how the proposed monitoring mine waste in perpetuity put forward by advocates for the proposed Pebble Mine is nothing but a myth that has proven unattainable in past experience.
September 20, 2012 – See the ad from over 800 hunting and angling groups and businesses, calling on President Obama to listen to the science and protect Bristol Bay. The ad ran in Politico, a Beltway publication. Also today, this ad from commercial fishermen ran in The Hill.
September 19, 2012 – The Associated Press reports that a legal settlement over the State of Alaska’s 2005 Bristol Bay Area Plan could have impacts on the proposed Pebble Mine project.
September 19, 2012 – Alaska Public Radio reports that leaders of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation are in Washington, DC asking members of Congress to support the EPA’s watershed assessment of the Bristol Bay region.
September 13, 2012 – Former Alaska First Lady Bella Hammond wrote an impassioned opinion editorial about the Environmental Protection Agency’s involvement in studying the potential impacts to the Bristol Bay fishery from proposed large-scale mining in the region in the Anchorage Daily News.
September 8, 2012 – Anchorage talk show host Shannyn Moore poses the idea that the proposed Pebble Mine “could be another Red Devil” in this Anchorage Daily News opinion editorial. Red Devil is an out of commission mercury mine that Alaska Governor Sean Parnell is now asking the federal government for assistance in cleaning up the pollution.
September 7, 2012 – The outdoor writer for the Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger wrote of his recent fishing trip to Alaska, where he learned about the proposed Pebble Mine while catching big, wild rainbow trout.
September 5, 2012 – KDLG radio previews the upcoming peer review panel meetings hosted by the Keystone Center, to assess the Pebble Limited Partnership’s environmental baseline data. This is different than the EPA’s official independent peer review panel. Keystone is funded by the backers of the proposed Pebble Mine, so there is a question as to how unbiased this process truly is.
September 4, 2012 – A 30-year commercial fisherman from Portland, OR wrote a column in Blue Oregon comparing the proposed Pebble Mine to Godzilla.
September 4, 2012 – KDLG radio reports on the work of fisheries scientists studying stream flows in the Koktuli River in southwest Alaska. The Koktuli is at risk of being de-watered by the proposed Pebble Mine to support mining operations.
September 1, 2012 – The Bellingham (WA) Herald ran an opinion editorial from a 25-year veteran of Bristol Bay commercial fishing, advocating common-sense restrictions being placed on proposed mining development in Bristol Bay.
August 31, 2012 – The Washington Post reports on how celebrity chef Rick Moonen is fighting for Bristol Bay’s wild salmon from his seafood restaurant in Las Vegas.
August 30, 2012 – The Outdoor Reporter ran a great story about the possible impacts on hunting in southwest Alaska from the proposed Pebble Mine.
August 30, 2012 – The Save Bristol Bay YouTube channel features a new video detailing the effects of copper on the navigational abilities of salmon.
August 29, 2012 – A fisheries scientist wrote an opinion editorial in the Anchorage Daily News commending the EPA’s peer review process related to the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
August 28, 2012 – A Bristol Bay fisherman from southeast Alaska wrote an opinion editorial in the Juneau Empire about the peer review panelist who suggested at recent EPA public meetings that one way to mitigate the possible effects of the proposed Pebble Mine would be to reduce the allowable commercial fishing harvest!
August 27, 2012 – An opinion editorial in the Juneau Empire describes the proposed Pebble Mine project as an “ethical Armageddon.
August 24, 2012 – Alaskans for Bristol Bay commended a judge’s ruling today that instructs the mayor and an assemblywoman in the Lake & Peninsula Borough to cease using their official positions for personal and financial gain. The two elected officials in question have ties to the proposed Pebble Mine project.
August 23, 2012 – The Alaska Journal of Commerce reports that both sides of the Pebble Mine debate are finding different conclusions from EPA’s draft watershed assessment of Bristol Bay.
August 23, 2012 – Portland Monthly magazine profiles a small business that harvests and markets wild Bristol Bay salmon.
August 22, 2012 – SitNews has a story about a sawmill and lumber products company that is expanding in Southeast Alaska and producing more value-added products from the Tongass National Forest to sell to residents in the region.
August 22, 2012 – A new Facebook application allows consumers to locate wild Bristol Bay sockeye salmon. Check out the press release from Bristol Bay Sockeye.
August 20, 2012 – The Alaska Dispatch reports that the State of Alaska has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up an abandoned mercury mine in southwest Alaska. Which is ironic, since the State has asked EPA to stay out of the debate over the proposed Pebble Mine.
August 20, 2012 – The Switchboard blog debunks the testimony given by the Pebble Mine’s “experts” to the EPA’s independent peer review panel on the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
August 20, 2012 – The Switchboard blog uncovers the background of the “experts” that the Pebble Limited Partnership has engaged to discredit the EPA’s Bristol Bay watershed assessment process.
August 19, 2012 – As the commercial fishing season in Bristol Bay draws to a close, the Alaska Dispatch discusses the tentative final numbers for a decent season that varied somewhat widely by location.
August 18, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News reports that the Bristol Bay Native Association has been awarded a $405,000 grant from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture to enhance training programs for jobs in the commercial fishing and seafood processing industry.
August 17, 2012 – A commercial fishing industry leader from Bristol Bay wrote an opinion piece about Pebble Mine’s threat to U.S. jobs dependent upon the Bristol Bay fishery in the DC publication The Hill.
August 16, 2012 – The Alaska Journal of Commerce covers the independent peer review panel’s discussions of the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
August 16, 2012 – The Switchboard blog has an entry in response to Alaska Congressman Don Young’s recent press release in which he decries the “outside” interests who have weighed in on the EPA’s work in Bristol Bay. Seems as if he’s ignoring Alaskans and instead paying more attention to the true outsiders – the foreign-owned mining companies seeking to build the Pebble Mine.
August 15, 2012 – Industry and Republican lawmakers are expressing fears over the possibility that the Environmental Protection Agency uses its authority under the Clean Water Act to protect Bristol Bay and its fishery resources, according to The Hill.
August 15, 2012 – The Fishing Wire discusses a new report that highlights the risk to the Bristol Bay region, based upon a study of existing mines in the USA that represent 89% of US copper production. The impacts from those mines are a cautionary tale.
August 14, 2012 – According to this blurb from the Associated Press, the Pebble Limited Partnership may move into the permit application phase either late in 2012 or early in 2013.
August 13, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News editorialized on the need to keep the focus on what the Bristol Bay / Pebble Mine debate is all about (does it make sense to build something like Pebble in a place like Bristol Bay?) and not allow the debate to devolve into partisan politics.
August 11, 2012 – The Peninsula Clarion editorialized on the risk vs. reward of the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay.
August 11, 2012 – KTUU television reports that the EPA’s draft watershed assessment of Bristol Bay is now in the hands of an independent peer review panel.
August 10, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News reports that Congressional Republicans are starting to criticize the Environmental Protection Agency for efforts to understand the potential risks to Bristol Bay from proposed large-scale mining in the region.
August 9, 2012 – Dr. Samuel Snyder breaks down his observations of the EPA’s peer review panel deliberations from day 2 of the agency’s meetings on the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment at SaveBristolBay.org.
August 8, 2012 – The Alaska Dispatch recaps day 2 of the EPA’s peer review panel meetings in Anchorage to discuss the agency’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
August 7, 2012 – KTUU television has a very good recap of public testimony given on day one of the EPA’s peer review panel meeting on the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment. KSKA public radio also covered the day’s proceedings.
August 7, 2012 – The Alaska Dispatch reports on the back-and-forth of public testimony about the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment at the EPA’s peer review panel meeting in Anchorage.
August 7, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News recaps day one of the EPA’s peer review panel meetings in Anchorage on the agency’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
August 6, 2012 – A veteran fisheries biologist with much experience in Bristol Bay wrote an opinion editorial in the Anchorage Daily News comparing the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment (being peer reviewed this week) and Pebble’s "environmental baseline" document.
August 6, 2012 – The Alaska Dispatch reports that a state judge has ruled that five voters whose votes were questioned in last fall’s Lake & Peninsula Borough “Save Our Salmon” initiative vote were indeed eligible to vote. The five plaintiffs included a few lodge owners and outfitters, as well as well-known Pebble opponent Bob Gillam.
August 6, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News previews this week’s peer review panel meetings in Anchorage to discuss the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
August 5, 2012 – Alaska Dispatch notes that while many rivers (including the famed Kenai) have experienced dismal runs of king salmon this year, the Nushagak River in Bristol Bay has had an exceptional season for sport anglers pursuing the largest of Alaska’s salmon species.
August 3, 2012 – Save Bristol Bay previews next week’s peer review panel meeting in Anchorage to discuss its findings on the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
August 2, 2012 – The Summer 2012 issue of American Forests magazine has a cover feature story discussing the ongoing transition of the Tongass National Forest from a timber-based economy to one more dependent upon tourism and salmon.
August 1, 2012 – Alaska Dispatch reports on an innovative program involving Peter Pan Seafoods and Dillingham schools that puts wild Bristol Bay salmon on students’ plates for school lunches.
July 31, 2012 – PBS' Frontline continues to follow the debate over the proposed Pebble Mine. Here they discuss Northern Dynasty Minerals’ (one of the partners in the proposed project) critical assessment of the EPA’s draft watershed assessment.
July 27, 2012 – The Bristol Bay Times reports that the commercial salmon season is winding down in Bristol Bay with reports from the various river systems, with over 20 million sockeye harvested by the commercial fleet.
July 25, 2012 – KTUU television highlights responses to this week’s Frontline episode from voices on either side of the proposed Pebble Mine debate.
July 24, 2012 – North Carolina’s Herald-Sun newspaper details the transformation of “Red Gold” into “Alaska Gold” which will air tonight on PBS’ Frontline investigative news program. One of the “Red Gold” filmmakers is originally from Chapel Hill, NC.
July 24, 2012 – FOX News wades into the debate over the proposed Pebble Mine as the EPA’s public comment period on the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment closed yesterday.
July 23, 2012 – The PBS investigative news program Frontline covers the debate over the proposed Pebble Mine. The link is to a comprehensive story, and you can also watch a 30-second video clip previewing the episode that debuts on PBS stations tomorrow.
July 22, 2012 – Indian Country Today runs a short story about sportfishing in Alaska, with a quote from SAA Director Scott Hed. The story is the result of a media trip SAA organized to southeast Alaska.
July 20, 2012 – The food blog Menuism discusses how July is Bristol Bay salmon season.
July 19, 2012 – The Huffington Post ran a very good column by an Alaska political blogger about the proposed Pebble Mine, Alaska politics, and the EPA’s involvement.
July 18, 2012 – The Sacramento Bee was one outlet that ran a press release from the Save Bristol Bay campaign showing support from over 700 businesses for EPA to take action protecting Bristol Bay, it’s fishery resources, and the jobs and economic impact they support.
July 18, 2012 – The effects of copper and mining on salmon habitat are explained very concisely in this YouTube video from Save Bristol Bay.
July 15, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News reports that the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon harvest is going to pass 20 million fish soon.
July 13, 2012 – As his trip concludes, food author Paul Greenberg ruminates on his time in Bristol Bay and the looming threat of the proposed Pebble Mine in The Atlantic.
July 12, 2012 – Field & Stream's Conservationist blog makes an eloquent plea for sportsmen to weigh in with EPA on the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment by the July 23 deadline.
July 10, 2012 – Legendary newsman Dan Rather reports on the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay on Yahoo News.
July 10, 2012 – The Alaska Dispatchreports that the overall Bristol Bay sockeye salmon run is on track to meet projections, despite the low numbers that returned to the Nushagak River this year.
July 8, 2012 – The Green Issue of Blood Knot magazine has a piece about Bristol Bay (p.49) plus a lot of other cool content – check it out!
July 6, 2012 – The Cordova Times reports that the EPA is “getting an earful” about its draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment, from both sides of the argument.
July 5, 2012 – Sockeye salmon – it’s what’s for shore lunch. Food writer Paul Greenberg lands a Bristol Bay sockeye on the fly and his party enjoys a fresh salmon meal in the latest blog post from the river in the New York Times.
July 5, 2012 – The EPA’s decision to not extend the 60-day public comment period for the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment was covered by the Cordova Times.
July 5, 2012 – Fishermen's News Online covers the EPA’s independent peer review panel which is set to meet in Anchorage in early August to discuss the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
July 5, 2012 – The EPA has decided to not extend the 60-day comment period on the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment, something that the development interests have been asking for and the pro-Bristol Bay fishery side has opposed. The Anchorage Daily News editorialized favorably on EPA’s decision.
July 2, 2012 – Best-selling food writer Paul Greenberg continues his float trip in Bristol Bay with a discussion of bears. Follow his trip through a blog in the New York Times.

June 29, 2012 – Food writer Paul Greenberg continues his journal entries about his at-this-very-minute float trip in the Bristol Bay region on the NY Times blog.
June 28, 2012 – Award-winning food author Paul Greenberg is blogging daily on his float trip in the Bristol Bay region. Check out the first entry, including catching and consuming a few arctic grayling, in the New York Times.
June 28, 2012 – Alaska Public Radio’s KCAW had a good story on the Sitkoh River restoration project in which the US Forest Service is collaborating with Trout Unlimited and other groups.
June 27, 2012 – A Michigan fishing guide wrote a great letter to the editor in the Marquette Mining Journal about his business’ connection to Bristol Bay and support for the EPA’s work in Bristol Bay.
June 25, 2012 – The June issue of Dallas Safari Club’s newsletter Camp Talk includes a piece written by former DSC president Dr. Richard Allen, who participated in April’s Bristol Bay Sportsmen’s Summit in Washington, D.C.
June 25, 2012 – The Chef's Collaborative has partnered with the Save Bristol Bay campaign to arrange a series of Savor Bristol Bay dinners at over 50 restaurants across the country. Click the links to see the participating restaurants!
June 22, 2012 – A Bristol Bay native commercial fisherman wrote an opinion editorial supporting the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment in the Bristol Bay Times.
June 21, 2012 – The Headwaters of History blog gives a report on this year’s Bristol Bay River Academy, where youth from the Bristol Bay region learn the skills to become fly fishing guides.
June 21, 2012 – The discussion of the proposed Pebble Mine and the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment continues in the mining insider blog I Think Mining, which is very interesting to read.
June 20, 2012 – The Sitkoh River restoration project in the Tongass National Forest involving the US Forest Service, Trout Unlimited, and other partners was featured in the Capital City Weekly.
June 20, 2012 – An attorney involved with the Alaska state court case which challenges the State of Alaska’s actions related to the 2005 Bristol Bay Area Plan provides a detailed history of efforts to conserve the Kvichak and Nushagak River drainages in this piece from the Seattle Journal of Environmental Law.
June 20, 2012 – A food blogger at The Daily Meal writes about the campaign to protect Bristol Bay and its prolific salmon runs…and how she became a “fish hugger.
June 20, 2012 – Fish Information & Services reports the estimated run of sockeye salmon to Bristol Bay will be 32.3 million fish, with a projected harvest of 21.7 million fish.
June 19, 2012 – Alaska Public Radio KTOO reports on today’s passage of an omnibus public lands bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, which includes Congressman Don Young’s (R-AK) version of the controversial Sealaska lands bill.
June 19, 2012 – Rep. Don Young (R-AK) speaks on the House floor in support of his highly-controversial Sealaska lands bill.
June 19, 2012 – Two letters to the editor about Bristol Bay ran in the Seattle Times, one by a Bristol Bay commercial fisherman and one from an area sport fishing guide and fly shop owner.
June 18, 2012 – The Seattle Post-Intelligencer announces that the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon commercial fishing season is set to start!
June 18, 2012 – The controversial Sealaska lands bill which will impact the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska is covered on AlterNet. The bill is part of an omnibus public lands package that is scheduled to be debated on the House floor this week.
June 17, 2012 – The Juneau Empire ran a story about a restoration project on the Sitkoh River in southeast Alaska. The project includes the US Forest Service, Trout Unlimited’s Alaska program, and others.
June 17, 2012 – Reuters covers the intense debate over the Sealaska lands bill which is slated to be debated in the U.S. House of Representatives this week.
June 15, 2012 – The Bristol Bay Native Corporation reports that public participation in the EPA’s recent hearings on the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment was very favorable, according to the Cordova Times.
June 15, 2012 – Bristol Bay Native Corporation and Trout Unlimited’s Alaska program, through the Bristol Bay River Academy, teamed with Project Healing Waters to send eight veterans and soldiers on a five-day fishing trip to Mission Lodge in Bristol Bay.
June 14, 2012 – KATH television covers the Tongass National Forest’s restoration project at Sitkoh River, a collaboration of the US Forest Service and several partners including Trout Unlimited.
June 14, 2012 – KBRD radio reports that while the U.S. House is poised to possibly pass the controversial Sealaska lands bill as part of an omnibus package next week, the version more likely to stand a chance of overall success still resides in the U.S. Senate.
June 13, 2012 – The Orvis News sent a company staffer to serve as a guest instructor at the Bristol Bay River Academy and to write about the week’s experiences. Here are the journal entries: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 , Day 4, Day 5, Day 6.
June 13, 2012 – The Duluth (GA) Weekly reports that an Atlanta-area restaurant is planning a special sockeye salmon dinner to raise funds to aid the Bristol Bay campaign.
June 13, 2012 – KCAW radio reports that the controversial Sealaska lands bill has been merged into a larger omnibus package of bills that is slated to be voted on in the full House of Representatives next week.
June 13, 2012 – A fisheries scientist and commercial fish processing executive co-wrote an opinion editorial about Bristol Bay and the EPA’s role in securing its future in Crosscut.
June 12, 2012 – The videographer who is filming in Bristol Bay, including coverage of the EPA hearings, just posted a neat update to her blog about the experience.
June 11, 2012 – The National Parks Traveler reports on the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment with particular attention paid to the potential impacts from mining in the region to Lake Clark National Park & Preserve.
June 11, 2012 – The Bristol Bay Native Corporation issued a press release on the eight public hearings on the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment. The meetings drew nearly 2,300 attendees and roughly 450 oral comments, more than 80% of which were in favor of EPA’s work on the Bristol Bay assessment. See the breakdown by hearing location in summary form. A tremendous showing of support for the world’s most productive wild salmon fishery!
June 10, 2012 – The mining blog I Think Mining continues to cover the proposed Pebble Mine controversy, this time discussing the makeup of the EPA’s independent peer review panel for the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
June 10, 2012 – The Dutch Harbor Fisherman recounts the heated testimony from the Anchorage public hearing on the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
June 9, 2012 – Alaska’s Attorney General outlines his reasons for opposing the EPA’s watershed assessment process in Bristol Bay in this opinion piece from the Anchorage Daily News.
June 9, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News ran an opinion piece by a Bristol Bay native leader, pointing out the irony in the State of Alaska asking for a lengthy extension to the comment period on EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
June 8, 2012 – The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorialized on the need to extend the public comment period for the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment, something that the Pebble Limited Partnership and the State of Alaska (among others) have advocated.
June 8, 2012 – The Cordova Times covered the big public hearing in Anchorage on the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
June 8, 2012 – The Juneau Empire reports how the State of Alaska, US Forest Service, and two non-profit groups (including Trout Unlimited) are partnering on a $318,000 restoration project on Chichagof Island to benefit fish habitat.
June 7, 2012 – Watch the testimony of Bristol Bay Native Corporation’s President and CEO at the Anchorage EPA hearing on the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment on YouTube.
June 6, 2012 – Check Save Bristol Bay for a recap of today’s public EPA hearings in Dillingham and Naknek, AK…massive support for EPA’s work on the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment, and little love for Pebble.
June 5, 2012 – KSKA radio covers the Anchorage hearing on the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment, including quotes from some of the biggest names on either side of the debate.
June 5, 2012 – KTVA tv has some really good footage of yesterday’s EPA hearing in Anchorage, including some interviews with people on either side of the proposed Pebble Mine issue.
June 5, 2012 – The EPA announced the 12 members of the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment peer review panel today with a listing in the Federal Register.
June 4, 2012 – The Alaska Dispatch reports on the EPA’s public hearings in Seattle and Anchorage and the controversy over the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment in a very comprehensive feature.
June 4, 2012 – The June issue of Alaska Business Monthly includes a story on a newly-built cabin in Gustavus, AK constructed from second-growth wood from the Tongass National Forest.
June 4, 2012 – The New York Times editorialized about the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment, concluding that the risks from proposed mining development in the region are too high.
June 3, 2012 – One of SAA’s colleagues in the Bristol Bay campaign posted an entry about the EPA assessment at GreenFish.
June 1, 2012 – The Olympia Report provides in-depth coverage of the EPA’s Seattle hearing on the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
June 1, 2012 – Artist and Bristol Bay fishing guide Bob White wrote a great letter to the editor about his connection to Bristol Bay in the St. Paul Pioneer Press (scroll down to “Inspired by Bristol Bay).
June 1, 2012 – The guys over at Field & Stream's Fly Talk blog are imploring all anglers to weigh in on the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
June 1, 2012 – KPLU radio discusses the first EPA public hearing on the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment, which drew a packed house yesterday in Seattle.
June 1, 2012 – The American Fly Fishing Trade Association had three board members testify at the EPA’s first public hearing on the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment held in Seattle yesterday. See a clip of AFFTA board chair Jim Klug’s testimony on KTUU news.
June 1, 2012 – More coverage of the Seattle EPA hearing from our friends at Moldy Chum who were in attendance.
May 31, 2012 – An officer with the Resource Development Council speaks out against EPA’s draft watershed assessment in an Anchorage Daily News opinion editorial.
May 31, 2012 – The American Sportfishing Association issued a press release in praise of EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
May 31, 2012 – The Seattle Times provides the first account of today’s public hearing in Seattle on the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment. Roughly 350 people turned out, and approximately 90 testified. Vast majority of testimony in favor of protecting Bristol Bay. Seven more hearings next week in Alaska.
May 30, 2012 – KUOW radio discusses the EPA draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment and tomorrow’s public EPA hearing in Seattle.
May 30, 2012 – Outdoor Life magazine has a section called Live Hunt where you can follow a season of hunting in Alaska. Here are some photos from a brown bear hunt on the Alaska Peninsula.
May 30, 2012 – Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) held a press conference in Seattle today regarding her concerns over the proposed Pebble Mine and its potential impacts to her state. See coverage in the Puget Sound Business Journal and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
May 30, 2012 – The May issue of the TRCP Square Dealer includes the Vermillion brothers from Sweetwater Travel as TRCP’s Featured Conservation Leaders. Dan and Pat Vermillion participated in April’s Bristol Bay Sportsmen’s Summit in DC.
May 29, 2012 – SAA Director Scott Hed was profiled along with a discussion of the Bristol Bay campaign in Saint Olaf magazine, the publication of his alma mater St. Olaf College. (For a “flip page” version of the story, click here.)
May 29, 2012 – The Huffington Post includes an entry about the fact that one of the partners in the proposed Pebble Mine, Northern Dynasty Minerals, has seen its stock price plummet 90% since Feb. 2011. Seems like it’s a bad investment in addition to being a bad idea.
May 29, 2012 – A participant in last month’s Bristol Bay Sportsmen’s Summit wrote a great letter to the editor in the Allentown (PA) Morning Call.
May 28, 2012 – Yellow Breeches Outfitters in PA placed a letter to the editor about the Bristol Bay draft watershed assessment in the Harrisburg Patriot-News.
May 25, 2012 – The fly fishing and conservation blog Dispatches from the Middle River covers the EPA’s release of the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment, and gives some kudos to SAA Director Scott Hed.
May 25, 2012 – A mother and daughter who have commercially fished in Bristol Bay for nearly their entire lifetimes wrote a compelling opinion editorial in support of the EPA in the Bristol Bay Times.
May 22, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News wrote a tremendous editorial defending the EPA’s watershed assessment in Bristol Bay, as the risks from the proposed Pebble Mine need to be identified to make a wise decision for the region’s future.
May 21, 2012 – Operators of two of Bristol Bay’s oldest sportfishing lodges co-wrote a terrific opinion editorial in the Peninsula Clarion about the need to protect fish for the region’s future.
May 19, 2012 – The blog I Think Mining provides an interesting perspective from a mining industry insider with major reservations about the proposed Pebble Mine.
May 18, 2012 – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment. Huge step in the effort to protect Bristol Bay from large-scale mining development such as the proposed Pebble Mine. Long story short: Bristol Bay is a huge fishery, dependent upon healthy habitat and clean water, and large-scale mining in the region would likely have significant impacts.
May 18, 2012 – The hunting and angling community weighed in today in response to and support of the EPA’s draft watershed assessment for Bristol Bay, and is calling on the president to protect Bristol Bay.
May 18, 2012 – SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS on the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment. Comment period runs through July 23rd, so after you comment make sure to tell your contacts to do the same!
May 18, 2012 – The Bristol Bay Native Corporation issued a press release on the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment. From BBNC’s President & CEO: The science exists now to show that the proposed Pebble mine does not fit with a sustainable future for Bristol Bay, and should not be allowed to proceed.”
May 18, 2012 – The Associated Press ran a very good story on today’s EPA release of the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment in the Anchorage Daily News.
May 18, 2012 – BusinessWeek.com covered today’s announcement of the EPA’s release of the draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
May 18, 2012 – Not entirely pleased with the proceedings, read the statement from Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
May 18, 2012 – Due to the risks posed to fishing jobs in Washington state, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) issued a press release in support of EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
May 18, 2012 – The commercial fishing site Fishermen's News Online provided its own take on the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
May 18, 2012 – The Los Angeles Times reports on the threats identified to Bristol Bay’s fishery by the just-released EPA draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
May 18, 2012 – The news agency Reuters also covered today’s EPA draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment, with coverage in the Chicago Tribune.
May 18, 2012 – The Washington Post discusses the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment release and the implications to the proposed Pebble Mine.
May 18, 2012 – Here is the response from the Pebble Partnership's CEO John Shively to the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment.
May 18, 2012 – The executive director of the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association wrote a great opinion editorial on the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment in the Alaska Dispatch.
May 17, 2012 – The president of the Alaska state Senate and a lifelong Bristol Bay resident co-wrote a terrific opinion editorial in the Anchorage Daily News that evaluates the proposed Pebble Mine through the lens of former AK Governor Jay Hammond’s criteria for development.
May 15, 2012 – The Alaska Dispatch reports that the developers of the proposed Pebble Mine are anticipating the start of the permit application process in late 2012.
May 9, 2012 – KDLG radio has a 4-minute story about the upcoming release of the EPA’s draft Bristol Bay watershed assessment – definitely worth a listen.
May 8, 2012 – Here’s a very good video presentation about the proposed Pebble Mine with lots of facts and explanations of the processes that may be used, on YouTube.
May 8, 2012 – View some terrific interviews with residents of Nondalton – the nearest village to the proposed Pebble Mine – at HaulingGear.com.
May 7, 2012 – The May issue of Alaska Business Monthly has a very good article about the universal relevance of Alaska’s commercial fishing industry, including Bristol Bay and Southeast Alaska.
May 4, 2012 – The forward-thinking GreenFish blog jumps into the fray to discuss Bristol Bay and the proposed Pebble Mine.
May 4, 2012 – A Wisconsin resident with long-time ties to Bristol Bay wrote a terrific letter to the editor in the LaCrosse Tribune.
May 3, 2012 – The Seward Phoenix makes some connections between the lobbying and advertising that the Pebble Partnership has been doing and similar efforts by the oil and gas industry in Alaska.
May 3, 2012 – The online conservative journal Washington Examiner ran an opinion editorial critical of the tremendous recent piece by former Congressman Robin Hayes (R-NC) who supports EPA taking action to protect Bristol Bay’s fishery. See Mr. Hayes’ op-ed in the April 16 entry below.
May 3, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News editorialized in defense of the EPA’s work on the Bristol Bay watershed assessment, in response to the State of Alaska’s attorney general recently asking EPA to cease the assessment.
April 25, 2012 – The U.P. Second Wave reports on a Michigan fishing guide who traveled to Washington DC to participate in the Bristol Bay Sportsmen’s Summit.
April 25, 2012 – A Wisconsin resident wrote a letter to the editor about the threats facing Bristol Bay in the Red Wing Republican-Eagle.
April 24, 2012 – Read about the contingent of Alaskans who traveled to London to meet with the leaders of Anglo American and Rio Tinto (two global mining giants with ownership stakes in the proposed Pebble Mine) in the Alaska Dispatch.
April 24, 2012 – Grist includes a piece about the salmon fishing industry in the Tongass National Forest written by a small-boat fisherwoman.
April 24, 2012 – The May issue of Conde Nast Traveler includes a story on the proposed Pebble Mine with lots of good recent details and quotes from all corners of the debate.
April 23, 2012 – Here’s a blog post about the recent trip to London by the Bristol Bay campaign where local residents of Bristol Bay continued efforts to engage with the major mining companies desiring to build the proposed Pebble Mine.
April 20, 2012 – The Cordova Times covered the recent Bristol Bay Sportsmen’s Summit in Washington DC.
April 20, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News ran an opinion editorial challenging the assertions of the safety of the proposed Pebble Mine’s tailings impoundments relative to seismic activity in the Bristol Bay region.
April 19, 2012 – FOX Business reports that Rio Tinto (minority owner in the proposed Pebble Mine project) has no desire to develop an open-pit mine in Bristol Bay, in the CEO’s address to shareholders at their annual meeting.
April 17, 2012 – The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership posted about the Washington, DC efforts of hunters and anglers in defense of Bristol Bay, including pictures of the meeting with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.
April 16, 2012 – The Sportsmen’s Summit for Bristol Bay is taking place in Washington, DC this week. Read the press release from Trout Unlimited.
April 16, 2012 – A former Congressman who is currently the Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party wrote an opinion editorial in The Hill, a Washington, DC paper, advocating for the protection of Bristol Bay.
April 16, 2012 – A mining blogger gave some investment advice on anything related to the proposed Pebble Mine project on I Think Mining…sell your shares as fast as you can, it’s a tremendously risky proposition with no bulletproof plan to safely store the tailings.
April 15, 2012 – Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay has some information on their site about the trip to London by Bristol Bay stakeholders to meet with some of the mining giants involved in the proposed Pebble Mine.
April 13, 2012 – EPA’s Regional Administrator wrote a response to Alaska’s Attorney General over the AG’s request that EPA cease work on its Bristol Bay watershed assessment. See the full letter in the Homer Tribune.
April 11, 2012 – Fishermen's News Online details the EPA’s response to the Alaska Attorney General over the State’s objection to the watershed assessment being conducted by EPA in Bristol Bay.
April 6, 2012 – A Bristol Bay sportfishing guide wrote a great letter the editor about the threat of the Pebble Mine in the Corvallis Gazette Times.
April 5, 2012 – This opinion editorial by Trout Unlimited’s Southeast Alaska program director from the Juneau Empire advocates for restoration work in the Tongass National Forest to fuel the economy of Southeast Alaska.
April 4, 2012 – Wisconsin-based Dan Small Outdoors Radio interviewed Trout Unlimited Alaska’s Nelli Williams about the fight for Bristol Bay. Check out Episode 714 to listen to Nelli’s interview.
April 4, 2012 – The Homer News reports on the Pebble Partnership’s recent presentation in Homer on their 27,000 page environmental baseline document” about the area around the proposed Pebble Mine. Another report on the presentation can be found in the Homer Tribune.
April 4, 2012 – The Alaska Dispatch covers the debate over whether the EPA or the State of Alaska has the ultimate authority to determine the fate of the Bristol Bay region.
April 1, 2012 – The Pebble Partnership had some awkward explaining to do when it was revealed they had created a website implying that former Alaska first lady Bella Hammond – a staunch Pebble opponent – supports the mine project. Read about this bizarre situation in the Anchorage Daily News' "Alaska Ear" column, and no it is not an April Fool’s Day joke.

March 31, 2012 – A Bristol Bay commercial fisherman wrote an opinion editorial praising the Food Marketing Institute’s recently announced support of the EPA’s work in Bristol Bay. Read it in the Alaska Dispatch.
March 30, 2012 – The Portland Business Journal ran an opinion piece by two commercial fishing industry leaders detailing the connection between Bristol Bay and Oregon’s fishing industry.
March 28, 2012 – Capital City Weekly reports on a longtime Juneau-area commercial fisherman’s trip to Washington, DC to advocate for more US Forest Service budget funds to be allocated to projects that reflect the new management direction for the Tongass National Forest: more restoration and second-growth management and less old-growth logging.
March 27, 2012 – Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay released a letter from 77 commercial fishing organizations ranging from Alaska to Maine, asking President Obama and the EPA to protect Bristol Bay and its commercial fishing jobs from mega mining proposals in the region.
March 25, 2012 – The Alaska Journal of Commerce covers the informational meeting held by Bristol Bay Native Corporation to inform state lawmakers about the corporation’s position on the Pebble Mine project.
March 23, 2012 – The Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission corrected a misstatement by a supporter of the proposed Pebble Mine during the Bristol Bay Native Corporation’s recent meeting with Alaska lawmakers. It had been claimed that only 15% of commercial fishing permits in Bristol Bay are held by local residents, when in fact the number held by Bristol Bay locals is 25%, and 54% of all Bristol Bay commercial fishing permits held by Alaskans. Read the brief statement from the commissioners in the Juneau Empire.
March 20, 2012 – A commercial fisher wrote a good letter to the editor thanking U.S. Representative Norm Dicks (WA) for his leadership on fisheries issues and Bristol Bay in the Kitsap Sun.
March 20, 2012 – A Colorado sportsman wrote a great letter to the editor about why Bristol Bay matters to him. Read it in the Summit Daily, then check out the follow up letter supporting the first.
March 19, 2012 – The Juneau Empire reports on a presentation made by the Bristol Bay Native Corporation to legislative leaders on why the corporation does not support the proposed Pebble Mine project.
March 17, 2012 – The Seattle Journal of Environmental Law includes a paper that argues that judicial precedent and past Environmental Protection Agency actions support the use of the Section 404(c) process to protect unique headwater streams in Bristol Bay by prohibiting the issuance of dredge and fill permits for the proposed Pebble Mine.
March 16, 2012 – The Cordova Times reports that the supermarket and investment industries are supporting efforts to protect Bristol Bay’s fisheries.
March 14, 2012 – Congress and fishermen are looking at Tongass National Forest budget priorities according to this story from KFSK radio.
March 13, 2012 – Here’s an update on the recent locally-organized fundraiser held to benefit Bristol Bay from the West Seattle Herald. Over $4,000 was raised for the campaign!
March 12, 2012 – According to this press release the the nation’s largest group of food retail companies has spoken out on behalf of protecting Alaska’s Bristol Bay fishery. Read the letter from the Food Marketing Institute, whose members account for 75% of all retail food sales in the USA, to the Environmental Protection Agency.
March 12, 2012 – The executive director of the Association of Northwest Steelheaders wrote a compelling opinion editorial on the Eugene (OR) Register Guard about why Bristol Bay matters to citizens of the Pacific Northwest.
March 9, 2012 – A subsistence and commercial fisherman from Naknek, AK wrote this commentary about the overwhelming support of Alaska Natives in the Bristol Bay region for protection of the fishery in the Alaska Dispatch.
March 8, 2012 – A Southeast Alaska commercial fishermen makes a case for re-prioritized funding in the Tongass National Forest to promote restoration work that will benefit fishing and the region’s economy in this Juneau Empire opinion editorial.
March 8, 2012 – The Alaska Dispatch has a story on the lobby trip to Washington, DC by Southeast Alaska fishing interests asking for better protections in the Tongass National Forest.
March 7, 2012 – For anyone interested in how to plan a float fishing trip in Alaska, make sure to listen to this fantastic 90-minute interview with the author of Floating Alaska – Self-Guided Fishing Expeditions on Ask About Fly Fishing.com internet radio.
March 7, 2012 – Salmon Trout Steelheader magazine features a column written by the Association of Northwest Steelheaders about why protecting Bristol Bay matters to all anglers.
March 6, 2012 – A West Seattle resident, who is a float plane mechanic by trade and who also cares deeply for Bristol Bay, organized a fundraiser at a local brew pub. Read about it in the West Seattle Herald and the Washington Beer Blog. Anyone with an interest in replicating this fine event in your neck of the woods…please contact Scott@SportsmansAlliance4AK.org.
March 5, 2012 – A lengthy discussion of the Pebble Limited Partnership’s release of 27,000 pages of data and the challenges that the project developers are facing to build the proposed Pebble Mine is found in The Northern Miner.
March 3, 2012 – A past president of the Dallas Safari Club recently participated in the Bristol Bay Sportsmen’s Summit and wrote a piece on the issue for Lone Star Outdoor News.
March 2, 2012 – The Bristol Bay Times reports that the Pebble Limited Partnership recently released its massive baseline document” which critics say is slanted by the developer funding the report.
March 1, 2012 – Trout Unlimited Alaska issued a press release asking the US Forest Service to grow jobs by protecting fish in the Tongass National Forest. Fly fishing blog Buster Wants to Fish adds some commentary, and there are a group of commercial fishermen, sport anglers and guides in DC this week advocating for more conservation and restoration of fish habitat on the Tongass.
February 26, 2012 – A former Bristol Bay guide and current fly shop manager in Santa Fe wrote a tremendous opinion editorial in the Santa Fe New Mexican about why Bristol Bay matters in a place so far away.
February 26, 2012 – The Juneau Empire throws its support behind a bill in Alaska’s state legislature which would give the state an expanded role in the permitting process for proposed mining developments which would affect the Bristol Bay Fisheries Reserve.
February 24, 2012 – Outdoor Adventures which airs on 25 markets in the Upper Midwest ran a nice video about the two Alaska sled dog racers who are Mushing with a Message” to raise awareness about Bristol Bay at a series of races in Minnesota, Ontario, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
February 24, 2012 – The Peninsula Clarion editorialized in favor of a bill in the Alaska state legislature which would state that any large-scale sulfide mining proposals in the Bristol Bay region pose no danger to the fishery within the Bristol Bay Fisheries Reserve. There’s currently such a provision pertaining to oil and gas exploration and development in the area, but nothing that applies to mining.
February 24, 2012 – The public affairs manager for Anglo American US (Pebble) LLC wrote an opinion piece in the Anchorage Daily News lauding Anglo’s commitment to international best mining practices and how they’re committed to developing their proposed project in Bristol Bay without harming the environment or the fishery.
February 24, 2012 – The Alaska Journal of Commerce has a very good story about the frustration felt by state and federal agencies over the lack of information provided by the Pebble Partnership in the past few years. Pebble recently released over 27,000 pages of information on the existing environmental and social conditions in Southwest Alaska.
February 22, 2012 – Market Watch from the Wall Street Journal discusses a report released today on the investment risks facing Anglo American’s proposed Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay.
February 22, 2012 – The Associated Press covers an Audubon Alaska report stating that the proposed Sealaska lands bill allows the Native Corporation the ability to pick some of the largest and oldest remaining stands of old-growth forest on the Tongass National Forest.
February 18, 2012 – Mining Weekly reports that Northern Dynasty anticipates that the proposed Pebble Mine would be developed by a consortium of major mining companies and that the company is expecting to have its share of the project bought out in the future.
February 17, 2012 – The EPA just released an update on the agency’s watershed assessment being conducted in Bristol Bay. Look for a draft to be released in late April and a planned final version to be released in November.
February 16, 2012 – The Pebble Partnership could move into the permit process for the proposed Pebble Mine in late 2012 according to statements by a company executive in the Anchorage Daily News.
February 16, 2012 – Leaders of Alaska-based organizations representing Native residents of Bristol Bay, commercial fishing interests in Bristol Bay, and sportsmen wrote a joint opinion editorial on SitNews.com about the lack of objectivity and transparency in the 27,000 pages of information recently released by the Pebble Partnership.
February 15, 2012 – Bristol Bay fisherwoman Lindsey Bloom writes about the values of Alaska’s fisheries and the issues facing them in this Juneau Empire opinion editorial.
February 10, 2012 – Trout Unlimited’s Tongass National Forest page includes a fact sheet on the new Tongass 77 campaign which seeks to earn protection for 77 high-value salmon-producing watersheds in America’s largest national forest.
February 7, 2012 – The January 2012 issue of Fish Alaska magazine includes a feature about the Tongass National Forest management transition away from old-growth harvest and toward second-growth management and restoration work.
February 7, 2012 – A new scientific report concludes that the proposed Pebble Mine would eliminate critical salmon habitat and is too risky to develop. The report was jointly produced by the Wild Salmon Center and Trout Unlimited.
February 6, 2012 – In a recent episode of TRCP's Conservation Field Notes, Steven Rinella emphasizes the value of undeveloped winter range for Sitka black-tailed deer in southeastern Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.
February 3, 2012 – SAA Director Scott Hed and Why Wild? Director Elizabeth Dubovsky were interviewed about the proposed Pebble Mine and the Bristol Bay fishery on the latest episode of Edible Radio.
January 31, 2012 – The Juneau Empire reports on new legislation that would affect the Bristol Bay region and the proposed Pebble Mine in the Alaska legislature.
January 30, 2012 – The Anchorage Daily News reports that the Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources wants to change the agency’s mission statement, removing the words conserve” and enhance” (leaving only the word develop”). The Alaska legislature is expected to take up the issue.
January 29, 2012 – The Alaska News reports that the Alaska Department of Natural Resources won a ruling in Alaska’s Supreme Court, upholding the process which DNR uses to adopt state land use plans. The legality of the 2005 Bristol Bay Area Plan has been challenged by tribal and conservation interests. The Supreme Court sent the case back to the Superior Court for further action.
January 19, 2012 – Rice Lake (WI) Online profiles the two Alaska sled dog mushers who are racing a few events in the upper Midwest to raise awareness about the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay.
January 17, 2012 – Commercial fisherwoman Lindsey Bloom wrote a great article about the need to protect the habitats which support Bristol Bay’s prolific salmon runs in a recent issue of Pacific Fishing magazine.
January 17, 2012 – The January issue of Fly Rod & Reel includes a portrait of Steve Laurent, manager of Bristol Bay Lodge and also an accomplished photographer.
January 10, 2012 – The Bristol Bay Native Corporation (BBNC) is celebrating 40 years in existence. To mark the occasion, BBNC asked its shareholders to participate in a video project to document their daily lives. Watch the incredible Day in Our Bay, which debuted to rave reviews at the Anchorage International Film Festival in December 2011.
January 5, 2012 – The blog SkyTruth has shown the scale of the proposed Pebble Mine by superimposing its footprint on Washington, DC.
January 5, 2012 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that Alaska mining operations account for 90% of the toxic chemical releases in the four-state Pacific Northwest region in this Alaska Public Radio story.
January 2, 2012 – The latest edition of Cross Current TV features the host laying out the argument for protecting Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine project. Take five minutes and check it out on YouTube.