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  • Presidential Candidate Scott Keller Embraces Alaskan Environment and Wilderness
    New Junky Journal
    By Jonathan Hodgson
    September 12, 2011
    Scott Keller, Independent Presidential contender for 2012, takes strong stand for the environment by supporting the Alaska natural Gas Development Authority's Propane Project and by preserving Alaska's wilderness by coming out strongly against...
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  • Alaskans Want Salmon Habitat Protected, Survey Says
    Alaska Dispatch
    June 29, 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. Ninety-six percent of Alaskans surveyed said salmon are essential...
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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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  • Head of the Class
    Fish Alaska magazine
    By Paula Dobbyn
    May 11, 2011
    Steel-grey clouds loom over Ekwok as cold raindrops pelt the Nushagak River. This famed southwest Alaska river — one of the largest producers of Chinook salmon in the state—flows past this remote Yup’ik Eskimo village before draining into...
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  • Frankenfish Phobia
    New York Times
    By Timothy Egan
    April 18, 2011
    At a time when the shell of the earth has cracked and the ocean heaved a mortal wave upon a shore of vulnerable nuclear plants, a small miracle is playing out in the biggest river of the American West. Spring Chinook salmon, the alpinists of the...
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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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  • EPA to study impacts on Bristol Bay watershed
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    By Associated Press
    February 7, 2011
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to study how a world-class copper and gold prospect could affect the Bristol Bay watershed and that region's premier commercial sockeye salmon fishery.
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