Nearly 28 million acres of Alaska’s public lands are at risk of industrial development. Act now to keep them protected.

Tens of millions of acres spread across Alaska are under threat—from Bristol Bay to the Brooks Range, the Copper River watershed, and northern Southeast Alaska.

The Bureau of Land Management is considering a sweeping rollback of protections to repurpose these lands for extractive industrial development, like mineral mining and oil and gas leasing. Public comments are being accepted on an Environmental Impact Statement through February 14.

Urge the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to keep these landscapes intact by choosing the “No Action” alternative.

These areas are known as “D-1 public lands” because they are protected from industry under article 17(d)(1) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Alaska’s D-1 lands support 75 percent of all federally recognized Tribes in Alaska, providing subsistence resources for more than 100 Alaska Native communities.

They serve as massive carbon sinks for the planet, and nourish fish and wildlife—including all five species of Pacific salmon, three of North America’s largest caribou herds, and abundant moose populations. This impending decision would impact a vast number of migratory birds, including iconic Alaska species like the Bald Eagle, Spectacled Eider, Rock Ptarmigan, and Aleutian Tern.

Help us protect public lands and prioritize clean water, food security, and healthy habitat for countless fish, wildlife, and bird species over industrial development.

Take action and urge Secretary Haaland and the Bureau of Land Management to keep Alaska’s D-1 protected lands intact.