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  • Great Alaskan fishery faces crippling threat
    Denver Post
    By Scot Willoughby
    November 1, 2011
    The rivers of Bristol Bay make up the world's largest commercial sockeye salmon fishery and the bay accounts for $360 million annual income. After recently discovering the world's second-largest copper and gold resource at the river headwaters, a...
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  • Lawmakers dueling over proposed Alaska gold mine
    The Kansas City Star
    By Rob Hotakainen
    September 12, 2011
    In a high-stakes battle that pits gold and copper against fish, members of Congress are scrapping over a plan to build one of the world's largest open pit mines in southwest Alaska.
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  • Alaskan Voice Strong Support for Salmon Habitat
    Bristol Bay Times
    June 28, 2011
    A new poll by the Alaska chapter of The Nature Conservancy of some 500 registered voters shows overwhelming statewide support for policies protecting salmon habitat across the state.
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  • EPA Visits Bristol Bay
    KDLG-FM
    By http://kdlg.org/news/audio/news110605b.m3u
    June 5, 2011
    Senior EPA officials were in Dillingham last Friday to give an update on the Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment. The public meeting is an early stage in the agency’s assessment of the watershed and the potential impact of large-scale development on...
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  • 13 Bristol Bay Residents Train as Fly Fishing Guides
    The Bristol Bay Times
    May 27, 2011
    Thirteen young area residents considering careers as sport fish guiding will embark on an eight-day adventure on Sunday as participants in the third annual Bristol Bay Fly Fishing and Guide Academy at an upscale fishing lodge near King Salmon....
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  • Bristol Bay stakeholders to address legislature over Pebble Mine
    Juneau Empire
    By Jonathan Grass
    March 16, 2011
    The prospect of the Pebble Mine is a looming figure for many in Bristol Bay. While the Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with a scientific assessment of the watershed, those of various industries connected to the salmon population...
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  • EPA's Bristol Bay study a good start
    Juneau Empire
    By Alannah Hurley, Op-Ed
    March 15, 2011
    In August 2010, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson stood in the same gym where we grew up, winning and losing basketball tournaments, celebrating graduations, and gathering to discuss important issues in our communities....
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  • Pebble Mine is far too risky: size, place and sulfur make the mining unwise
    Fairbanks Daily News Miner
    By Rick Halford, Op-Ed
    February 27, 2011
    For years, Alaskans — myself included — have objected to federal intervention in our state. Politicians who live in the Lower 48, many in areas that are polluted beyond repair, do little to protect their own environment.
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  • Save Bristol Bay
    Oregonian
    By Jim Martin, Op-Ed
    February 25, 2011
    A precious renewable resource is once again under threat by a mining project that is mind boggling in scope and dangerous in potential damage to the public interest. Thankfully, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it will...
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  • ‘Hidden Alaska’: Bristol Bay threatened by Mining & Development
    Huffington Post
    By Joanna Zelman
    February 24, 2011
    National Geographic's book "Hidden Alaska: Bristol Bay and Beyond," photographed by Michael Melford and written by Dave Atcheson, captures a fragile region's unspoiled nature. 
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  • Bristol Bay Fishery must be protected
    Seattle Times
    By Jenna Hall, Op-Ed
    February 20, 2011
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it will conduct a scientific assessment of the Bristol Bay watershed at the urging of Alaskan Natives, sports-fishing and tourist groups, and the commercial fishing industry. EPA's decision...
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  • Editorial: The Risk to Bristol Bay
    The New York Times
    February 13, 2011
    Last year, the Obama administration permanently banned oil drilling in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, America’s richest salmon fishery and the heart of a $2.2 billion regional fishing industry. One huge threat to this extraordinary ecosystem remains...
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