World’s largest pit mine planned for SW Alaska
I hadn’t heard about this until I read the Denver Post today.
Proposed mine could have dreadful impact. By Charlie Meyers. Denver Post
The project would have a huge impact on wild salmon fisheries in Alaska. It also involves two dams, one larger than the Three Gorges Dam in China.
As usual in the Bush Administration, the BLM is facilitating the matter even as opposition in Alaska and elsewhere grows.

Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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Ted Williams wrote about this for Fly Rod & Reel magazine. I think this is a workable link: http://www.flyrodreel.com/index.php/page/issues/id/19174
Fishing businesses decry large mine proposed for Alaska see http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/11/america/NA_GEN_US_Mine_Fishing.php
The proposed mine is to be located in Southwest Alaska near Bristol Bay not Southeast Alaska. These two regions are geographically different and a thousand miles apart.
Thanks for catching the typo, Greg. I just fixed it. RM
I live in Alaska, and we are absolutely outraged about the Pebble mine project. Northern Dynasty needs to be told to go home. Now.