Take action today! Urge Congress to block a legislative amendment that would override the will of the American people and force the Ambler mining road to move forward in America’s largest national park landscape.
The controversial proposal would build a 211-mile gravel road through Alaska’s roadless interior range, including Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, bulldozing over thousands of rivers and streams, including the Wild Kobuk River.
The mining road construction and use by industrial trucks would be devastating to a vast wilderness landscape, impacting 66 Alaska Native communities. It would sever the migration path for the Western Arctic Caribou herd, which is one of North America’s largest remaining herds.
The American people, led by Alaskan communities, have already rejected this proposal – but a last-minute move in Congress could force the road through despite overwhelming opposition.
Urge Congress to remove this damaging provision before the bill becomes law. Over 20 million acres of national parklands — nearly a quarter of the acres in the entire National Park System is at risk.
Just days before the Ambler Road permits were officially canceled, an amendment was added to the Senate’s National Defense Authorization Act, that would force the road project forward, overriding the will of Alaskans and the American people.
The Ambler industrial mining road is not an issue of national security and Congress has no business attaching this mining road to the National Defense of Authorization Act.
Urge Congress to protect the Western Arctic caribou, Alaska Native communities, and Alaska’s spectacular parklands. | 
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