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Greetings fly fishing enthusiast,
Thank
you for your support for the world’s greatest wild salmon and trophy
rainbow trout fishery! Over the early months of 2007, the
Sportsman’s Alliance for
Alaska
attended 11 fly fishing shows across the country. You joined
several thousand conservation-minded anglers in signing the
Fly Fishing Petition for Bristol Bay
which is now available online at
http://www.sportsmansalliance4ak.org/FlyFishingPetition_BristolBay.html.
Please forward this message to all of your fishing friends so they
can become involved too. If each one of you asks a couple friends,
we can easily add thousands more anglers in support of
Bristol Bay’s
renewable resources.
Individual anglers such as yourself are being joined by the American
Fly Fishing Trade Association (AFFTA) and over 40 of its member
companies, Trout Unlimited, the Federation of Fly Fishers, Dallas
Safari Club, commercial fishermen and organizations, native villages
in the region, and others in the campaign to keep Bristol Bay from
being developed into a massive mining district, anchored by the
proposed Pebble Mine project located north and east of Lake
Iliamna. A major strength of this campaign is the diversity of
individuals and groups standing up and stating “No Mines in Bristol
Bay.”
Things
you can do:
1)
Encourage all of your fishing friends and fellow club members to
sign the Fly Fishing Petition for Bristol Bay online.
http://www.sportsmansalliance4ak.org/FlyFishingPetition_BristolBay.html
2)
Visit
www.tu.org/bristolbay
and click on the “New Project” to learn about
RED Gold: The Southwest Alaska Salmon
Treasure.
The award-winning fly fishing filmmakers at FeltSoul Media are
spending two months in
Alaska this
summer to produce a documentary on
Bristol Bay’s
world renowned fisheries and pristine waters, focusing on the mining
development that threatens these critical resources. This project
needs your support!
3)
Visit
www.sportsmansalliance4ak.org
to learn more about the threat to Bristol Bay. You can view the
AFFTA industry support ad that has run in most of the major fly
fishing publications under the “Latest News” tab, and you can join
the Sportsman’s Alliance for
Alaska by
clicking the “Join Us” tab. There is no cost to join,
however you will be kept up to date on
Alaska issues
of importance to sportspersons. Presently, the Sportsman’s Alliance
for Alaska is
working on the Bristol Bay campaign and the efforts to protect the
remaining highly productive watersheds of the
Tongass
National Forest in Southeast Alaska.
Again,
thank you for taking action to keep mining out of Bristol Bay.
Please forward this message to your friends to make the campaign
even stronger.
If you
have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
With
sincere gratitude,
Scott Hed
Outreach Director
Sportsman's Alliance
for
Alaska
(605) 336-6738 office
scott@sportsmansalliance4ak.org
www.sportsmansalliance4ak.org
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