President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum protecting Bristol Bay, Alaska,
Things You Need to Know About Alaska's Bristol Bay
1. Bristol Bay provides 40 percent of America's wild-caught seafood.
Bristol Bay is one of the world's most valuable fisheries, providing 40 percent of America's seafood and supporting up to $2 billion in commercial fishing every year.
2. Bristol Bay hosts one of the world's largest wild salmon runs.
While remote, this area is also an economic engine for tourism in Alaska. Bristol Bay drives $100 million in recreational fishing and tourism activity every year.
3. Bristol Bay is home to multiple threatened species.
Bristol Bay provides important habitat for many species, including the threatened Stellar's eider, sea otters, seals, walruses, Beluga and Killer whales, and the endangered North Pacific Right Whale.
4. The President's action protects millions of acres from drilling.
The North Aleutian Basin Planning Area that includes Bristol Bay consists of about 32.5 million acres. The previous Administration set in motion a new lease sale for 2011 that would have opened approximately 5.6 million acres -- about one-fifth of the planning area -- for drilling. In 2010, President Obama temporarily withdrew the Bristol Bay area from oil and gas development, and today's action extends that protection indefinitely.
5. President Obama is not the only president to use his executive authority to protect lands.
The President issues his temporary withdrawal in 2010 using his authority under section 12 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which gives the president authority to withdraw offshore areas from potential oil and gas leasing. President Eisenhower was the first to exercise the authority in 1960, withdrawing an area now included in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Since then, presidents on both sides of the aisle have acted to withdraw areas of the Outer Continental Shelf from oil and gas leasing.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/12/16/5-things-you-need-know-about-alaska-s-bristol-bay
Excellent.
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Nevermind...knr
Oh wait.
Never mind.
...Bristol Bay fishing boats will be called 'brawlers.'
K and R
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Obama to create world’s largest protected marine reserve in Pacific Ocean
Pink corals is seen on the Palmyra Atoll, which had an existing 50-mile safeguard. President Obama is expected to create the world’s largest fully protected marine reserve in the central Pacific Ocean. (Jim Maragos/AP)
President Obama will use his legal authority Thursday to create the world’s largest fully protected marine reserve in the central Pacific Ocean, demonstrating his increased willingness to advance a conservation agenda without the need for congressional approval.
By broadening the existing Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monument from almost 87,000 square miles to more than 490,00 square miles. Obama has now protected more acres of federal land and sea by executive power than any other president in at least 50 years; this action makes the area in question off-limits to commercial fishing.
The proclamation will mean added protections for deep-sea coral reefs and other marine ecosystems that administration officials believe are among “the most vulnerable” to the negative impacts of climate change.
While the new designation is scaled-back version of an even more ambitious plan the administration had first floated in June, it marks the 12th time Obama will have exercised his power under the 1906 Antiquities Act to protect environmental assets. The decision to continue to allow fishing around roughly half the area's islands and atolls aims to limit any economic impact on the U.S. fishing interests.
Read more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-create-worlds-largest-protected-marine-reserve-in-pacific-ocean/2014/09/24/e2ecaab4-433e-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html?wprss=rss_politics
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to kpete, Sheshe, Cha and other posters at link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014902853
The state GOP ignored the pleas of Alaskans who wanted to stop a mining project in the region:
http://www.savebristolbay.org/about-the-bay/about-pebble-mine
It would have destroyed the area. The KOCH/GOP/Libertarian/Bagger Crew will go ballistic. But then, that's all they know how to do. In the meantime, much love to my President from a fellow tree hugger!
Mahalo President Obama for protecting Bristol Bay in Alaska~
Source: Sec. of Interior Sally Jewell
Just now, the President took action to protect a place called Bristol Bay, Alaska. Here's why that matters:
It places a national treasure -- and one of the nation's most productive fisheries -- off limits for oil and gas leasing. Alaskans have been fighting to preserve Bristol Bay for decades. Today, we got it done.
Bristol Bay helps to produce 40 percent of America's wild-caught seafood each year. It supports $2 billion every year in commercial fishing, and supports good jobs in sport-fishing and tourism.
These waters are beautiful and valuable, and today's action will ensure that future generations will be able to enjoy their bounty.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/12/16/5-things-you-need-know-about-alaskas-bristol-bay?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=email406-text1&utm_campaign=environment
Botany says:
This is very good news! Use your executive powers Mr. President.
Now if this helps to stop "The Pebble Mine Project" all the better:
http://www.savebristolbay.org/about-the-bay/about-pebble-mine
More from Botany:
Dear Republicans, if you don't like this action please take it up w/this Bristol Bay "lobbyist:"
to Botany:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014967416
Sorry I didn't mention you and Sheshe by name in the previous post, have corrected it. This is such good news for liberals.
Stunning pics from Bristol Bay, Alaska!
Thanks for the mention but you didn't have to.. No Worries! 
In which Obama explains it better.
This is a blow against corporatism and puts people and the environment ahead of profits and stealing from future generations.
Excellent work, President Obama!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025969185#post15
Check the thread out, good pictures from the White House blog posted by Steve:
to Steve2470:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025969185#op
Thanks for the thread, merry blooms! Really good news!
