Tell Congress to reject Ambler Mining Road amendment!

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Tell Congress to reject the Ambler Mining Road amendment!

Gate of the Arctic, Alaska by NPS/Zak Richter

Your help is needed—once again—to defend the Gates of the Arctic Wilderness and its wildlife from the threats posed by the 211-mile Ambler Mining Road!

Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan has inserted an amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act to force approval of the Ambler Road through Alaska’s Brooks Range and some of the wildest country on the continent.

The sole purpose of the Ambler Road is to facilitate huge mining operations that would benefit a private Canadian company at the expense of Wilderness and wildlife.

If built, the Ambler Road would stretch west from the Dalton Highway—the Haul Road leading to the Prudhoe Bay oil field on the North Slope—to the mining claims. Along the way, this “road to ruin” would cross Gates of the Arctic National Preserve and the Kobuk Wild and Scenic River, both ecologically significant public lands that make up part of the largest remaining roadless area in the country.

The Ambler Road also would cross nearly 3,000 streams, 11 major rivers, major caribou migration routes, and would bisect a wide swath of the southern Brooks Range, home to numerous Athabaskan and Iñupiat villages, as well as grizzly bears, wolves, and Dall sheep.

You may recall that earlier this year, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a record of decision denying the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority a right-of-way to build the road across BLM-administered public lands.

That good news was in no small part due to thousands of comments opposing the Ambler Road submitted by Wilderness Watch members and supporters.

Now we need your help again to stop the Ambler Road!

Write your members of Congress and urge them to ensure that language forcing the approval of the Ambler Road is not included in a final National Defense Authorization Act this year.

Thank you for taking action to help protect Wilderness and wildlife in Alaska.

Tell Congress to reject the Ambler Mining Road amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act

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Tell Congress to reject the Ambler Mining Road amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act

Your U.S. Senators and U.S. House Rep

Subject: Reject the Ambler Mining Road amendment in the NDAA

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As your constituent, I’m writing today to ask you to ensure that language forcing the approval of the Ambler Mining Road is not included in a final National Defense Authorization Act this year. The sole purpose of the Ambler Road is to facilitate huge mining operations that would benefit a private Canadian company at the expense of Wilderness and wildlife. The proposed Ambler Mining Road would bring enormous harms to Alaska, the Gates of the Arctic National Preserve and surrounding wildlands, and the Wild and Scenic River System. The Ambler Road would cross nearly 3,000 streams, 11 major rivers, 1,700 acres of wetlands, and major caribou migration routes. It would negatively impact up to 66 Native subsistence villages that rely on the Western Arctic Caribou Herd and other natural resources in order to survive. Again, please ensure that language forcing the approval of the Ambler Mining Road is not included in a final National Defense Authorization Act this year.

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