NYTimes.com - The Battle for Bristol Bay

NYTimes.com - An Alaskan vote may impact the permitting of Pebble Mine, potentially the largest mine in North America.

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[JessePinkmanYo]

Guess what? do you like electricity, lights, modern society. it takes copper for modern society to run. I suggest if you oppose this mine you shouldn't use any copper at all, you'd better sell all your gold too, oh yeah and turn your back on the economic system. People need money to live, I didn't make the rules but, The pebble deposit will bring BILLIONS to the local native community

OPPOSE HAARP NOT PEBBLE

[enzyme12345]

The mining company executives are sick people. They have sense of right and wrong.

[zziper]

Pebble Mine will most certainly take this away, It's just a mater of time!!!

[zziper]

I know deep inside me I to am part of this cycle of life. Yes I am proud and honored to be part of something so magical, I can honestly say I have helped feed over a million people. All my life I have been, and for the rest of my life I will be, an Alaska Commercial Fishermen in Bristol Bay!

Now its my turn to show my son how too fish but more importantly how to Live!

[zziper]

The way his boats hull cut through the waves and salt spray hit my face. The smell of mud at low tide. the feel of slime and blood on my face after a long day or night fishing.

Now after a life of fishing I can sense when the Salmon are in, I can smell them, feel them, I know when its going to be a big day. The feeling is just as strong when the last salmon has swam by on its way to spawn and die.

[zziper]

And Every summer the first and the last fish I catch I let go. This started from the vary first summer fishing with me Dad, he said "Your suppose to eat the first one not let it go" I really don't know why it was something I just did, Its something that goes back to my childhood my first trip on the river with my Dad, the smell and feel of cold salt water of Bristol Bay mixing with the river waters from far up in the mountains

[zziper]

I say to my self as I put my hands in the cold river "Ive come back for you once more, I am yours, and you are mine, I will only take what I need from you and give you all that I can, I Thank you for supporting me and keeping me Safe. I know one day you might take me and keep me, for good thing never last forever. If this summer is my time I have no regrets I am yours"

[zziper]

. They just say ya sure Dave. Its hard to explain something that took a life time to acquire. I just feel the need.

Ive been waiting all winter to wash my hands and face in this river I call home. I know its stupid too some and I have tried too convey to them what it means to me, But most just laugh

[zziper]

I love Bristol Bay and the life its given me and my family. the first thing I do every summer is go down to the river and put my hands in the cold water and wash my face. some of my friends make fun of me, I try to explain it to them, That this River has given me all I have in life. That every thing I have ever owned was once a Salmon, I owe My life to Her.

[fungihntr]

If we had 100 large wild sockeye salmon drainages left on this planet, it might make sense to place a couple of jeopardy by mining the headwaters in a safe fashion. But we don't. We have just one. It isn't worth the risk. NO PEBBLE MINE!....and yes. I have been going to Bristol Bay for the last 20 years fiestavanplus!