Stop Trump's Road Through Alaska Wilderness

The Trump administration's approval of the controversial Ambler Road is a reckless giveaway to foreign mining companies and a devastating threat to one of America's most spectacular wild places.

The proposed 211-mile industrial road would cut through the southern foothills of Alaska's Brooks Range, one of the largest remaining roadless landscapes in North America. This region is home to intact ecosystems, world-class fisheries, and some of the continent's most iconic wildlife. 

And now, the Trump administration is considering using taxpayer dollars to help finance a project that could permanently scar this extraordinary landscape. They want taxpayers to have an equity state in destruction.

The road would require more than 3,000 stream and river crossings, along with dozens of bridges and thousands of culverts, placing critical fish habitat at risk. These waterways support salmon, Arctic grayling, whitefish, sheefish, and countless other species that sustain both wildlife and local communities.

The project would also slice across migration routes used by the Western Arctic Caribou Herd and other caribou populations. Roads and industrial development can fragment habitat, alter migration patterns, and place additional stress on herds that Indigenous communities and wildlife depend upon. Once these migration corridors are disrupted, the consequences can last for generations.

And the damage Trump’s road would cause extends far beyond wildlife. Alaska Native communities have relied on these lands and waters for subsistence and cultural traditions since time immemorial. The Ambler Road threatens the fish, wildlife, and healthy ecosystems that support those ways of life.

All of this to subsidize industrial development in one of the most ecologically important regions left in the United States.

Taxpayer dollars should be used to protect public lands, clean water, wildlife, and communities—not bankroll the destruction of them. Once this wilderness is fragmented and industrialized, there is no putting it back together.

We call on Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the Trump administration to immediately abandon the Ambler Road project and reject any taxpayer investment in its construction.

Sign the petition to tell Secretary Burgum that the Brooks Range is not for sale. Leave it wild. Stop the Ambler Road.

The petition to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum reads: The Trump administration must immediately abandon the Ambler Road project and reject any plan to spend taxpayer dollars on its construction. This 211-mile industrial road would carve through the wild Brooks Range region, cross more than 3,000 streams and waterways, threaten salmon and other fish habitat, and disrupt critical caribou migration routes. Americans should not be forced to subsidize the destruction of one of North America's last great roadless landscapes for the benefit of mining companies.
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