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Pebble Mine Update

Orvis has an update on the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska. Pebble Mine would threaten Bristol Bay and its world-leading sockeye salmon run. With Trump facing less than 100 days before the election and possible (but not certain) end of…

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Pebble Mine Consortium – the Beast That Will Not Die

I’ve written about the Pebble Mine in a number of posts. It had seemed that the consortium’s efforts to build an open pit mine that would have threatened Alaska’s Bristol Bay were over after the final major partner pulled out….

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Pebble Mine Update: Another Major Player Drops Out

Another major mining company has dropped out of the proposed Pebble Mine project. First Quantum Minerals joins the list of Mitsubishi Corporation, Anglo American, and Rio Tinto who determined the project is a bad investment. Only one small exploration company…

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Save Bristol Bay…Again

Bristol Bay is the easternmost part of the Bering Sea, and is north of the Alaskan Peninsula. It is home the world’s largest salmon run, and includes all five species of Pacific salmon (King, Coho, Sockeye, Pink, and Chum). And…

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“Radical” Anglers Needed Now

Hatch Magazine posted an open letter to America’s anglers and hunters earlier this month. You can read it here. This is a call to arms, or at least awareness, of the increasing attacks on anglers and hunters by the extraction…

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