The Pedro Bay Rivers Project was founded in 2000 with a mission to protect habitat important to the region’s subsistence culture, especially around salmon spawning areas, with effects spanning well beyond the proposed Pebble Mine.
, raised $20 million over 18 months to protect 44,000 acres of land along the northeast corner of Iliamna Lake in late December.
The deal’s impact on the now-beleaguered Pebble Mine proposal was at the forefront of conversation; it cuts off the Pebble Partnership’s proposed transportation road. was Pebble’s proposal for an 82-mile road from the mine site along the northeastern shore of Iliamna Lake to Cook Inlet. In 2020, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers identified it as the best way to get materials to and from the site while causing the least environmental damage.
KDLG reached out to the Pedro Bay Native Corporation but a representative declined to comment, saying they were not taking media inquiries at the time. across Bristol Bay over its 23-year lifetime. That includes working with Aleknagik Natives Ltd. and the Bristol Bay Native Corporation to secure an easement along the Agulawok River and 21,000 acres in the Wood-Tikchik State Park.
“People can continue to utilize the land for traditional practices. In our case, in Bristol Bay, important salmon spawning habitat is always of a high importance and priority for the region,” he said. Pedro Bay residents and shareholders aren’t losing other significant opportunities, Metrokin said; the potential to develop on those lands is “little to none.” And while the land trust will uphold the rules and regulations around development, corporation shareholders can still access that area.
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