Safeguard the Brooks Range

Alaska's Brooks Range,?one of the last truly wild landscapes in North America, is under threat from the development of the Ambler Road -- a 211-mile-long private industrial mining road. This project would compromise iconic hunting and fishing opportunities,?the health of the 110-mile-long?Kobuk?River, a National Wild and Scenic River with world-class?sheefish?fishing, and result in?irreversible impacts on the declining Western Arctic Caribou Herd.  

The Ambler Road Project has been described by federal officials, as a project that would bring prosperity to Alaska and to the nation. In reality, it will cost the nation. 

The Ambler Road would cost Alaskans an estimated $2 billion in public funds to construct and maintain, and its primary beneficiaries are two foreign mining corporations -- Trilogy Metals of Canada and South32 of Australia. This is not a project rooted in America First values. The hunting and fishing economies in Alaska are already a stable and long-term economic resource, that provide for a way of life for all Alaskans. 

In June of 2024, after rigorous and extensive public process, the Bureau of Land Management denied the right-of-way permit, halting the road.?A collection of executive orders?and?secretarial orders, skirting and discrediting previous public processes, laid the groundwork for the Ambler Road.?On October 6th, President Trump approved the appeal of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA), directing his Administration to promptly issue authorizations necessary for the establishment of the Ambler Road Project.?  

Federal agencies including the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have reissued the right-of-way and construction permits necessary to move the project forward. The Department of the Interior also transferred roughly 23,600 acres near Ambler to the State of Alaska, completing the state's land selections and paving the way for industrial development. Officials have called these steps "supporting local control." But in truth, they shift control from Alaskans and American citizens to foreign mining companies whose profits will flow overseas. 

The Ambler Road will cut through wild country that defines Alaska's outdoor heritage -- land that supports local economies built on hunting, fishing, guiding, and recreation, not land suitable for industrial mining. 

Support the continuation of the last great expanse in North America?and ask your members of Congress to oppose legislative and administrative?actions that would advance the Ambler Road, which carries major financial and natural resource risks to Alaska's fish, wildlife, and outdoor heritage.