The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has a decision open here and is taking comments on it. Gates of the Arctic (Ambler Road), Alaska.
The agency files it as “Arctic Mine Development Project, Upper Kobuk River: Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement”
4 days leftcloses November 2
Places to check
1
People it would take
3
Said they’ll go
0
Photographs filed
0
Opened
October 2
Window closes
November 2
Evidence
Nothing filed yet.
No photograph has been filed on this mission yet. The first one lands here with its fingerprint, where its location came from, and how far inside the agency’s own boundary it was taken. The places to check are below.
The objective
What we are testing.
Gates of the Arctic (Ambler Road)Stream crossings
“Dolly Varden spawning has been confirmed in the upper reaches of Subarctic Creek”
The agency wrote that in its own document, under BLM's 2024 Ambler Road Final Supplemental EIS, Vol. 1, p. 3-110. Nobody has been out to check it.
Walk the upper reaches of Subarctic Creek where the pit and waste piles would go and photograph the open water, looking for live char, pale swept-clean gravel nests, or spent fish. A dated photo of fish, fresh gravel nests, or spent fish in upper Subarctic Creek shows the water slated for fill is alive.
Open. Anything filed before November 2 goes into the comment file the agency has to answer. After that it backs the formal objections, goes to the lawyers on the fight, and is the story.