The Conservation Alliance

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT (BLM) We look forward to working with the new BLM director Robert Abbey to help reverse the damaging decisions made by the Bush administration and establish stronger protections for threatened public lands in Alaska. We encourage Sec. Salazar to help direct the agency toward achieving this goal and return Alaska’s public lands back to public hands. For Bristol Bay, we ask him to direct the Department of Interior (DOI) to create a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement that would adopt the strongest possible protections for the lands and waters of Bristol Bay; re-conduct the review of the rivers on BLM lands using a watershed-level approach; and incorporate findings from the Nushagak River Watershed Traditional Use Area Conservation Plan to ensure fisheries and traditional ways of life are not sacrificed to short-sighted development. ACTION: Click here to tell Secretary of the Interior Salazar to direct the BLM to create a... Read More