Defend the Brooks Range | Stop Ambler Road

In the Brooks Range region of Northern Alaska, the proposed 210-mile Ambler industrial mining road could forever damage a vast roadless region and threaten Alaska Native communities, wildlife, thousands of waterways, and America’s largest national park landscape.

The threat has never been greater.

Tribes and communities around the region, along with hundreds of thousands of Alaskans and people across America have strongly rejected the Ambler mining road.In 2024, a final ruling by the Bureau of Land Management blocked the road proposal after determining its impacts were far too damaging.

Now, the Trump administration is taking unprecedented steps to ignore previous rulings and instead force the Ambler mining road forward.

Join Defend the Brooks in standing strong and saying NO to the Ambler Mining Road.

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This road would be an irreversible blow to the Brooks Range. The road itself would be massively disruptive and open the floodgate to widespread destructive mining operations across the iconic region.

A Road to Ruin

The proposed 211-mile, private, industrial access corridor would impact over 60 Alaska Native villages with the proposed mining district located nearest villages of Kobuk, Shungnak, Ambler, which sit downstream from what would be multiple open-pit mines.

Gates of the Arctic

The road would cut right through the foothills of one of our country’s most majestic and ecologically intact landscapes – Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.

Pollution-Spewing Trucks

Pollution-spewing trucks hauling mining materials to and from the mining corridor would traverse the stretch hourly, continuously, for over 30 years, with high risk of spills and certain impact to vegetation, wildlife, and soundscape of the region.

Fresh Water

Thousands of rivers and streams flowing out of the Brooks Range are the lifeblood of the region’s communities, culture, and wildlife. These waterways would be bulldozed, redirected, and polluted.

Caribou Herd

This road would disrupt the 2,700+ mile migration route of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, one of the last great land migrations left on Earth, threatening the 30+ communities that rely on hunting the animals to feed their families and traditional subsistence way of life.

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All Risk No Reward

The proposed Ambler road would cut through one of our nation’s largest and wildest public landscapes. These millions of cherished wild acres support one the greatest caribou herds left on Earth, a way of life for the region’s Alaskan Native peoples, and world-class hunting, fishing, and recreation. All this would be sacrificed so that foreign mining companies could try to exploit the region and squeeze profits from Alaskan land.

Yet, the Ambler road will not make Alaska or America richer, safer, or more resource resilient. This is a highly speculative boondoggle, with no proven return on investment.

During a time when key Alaskan institutions desperately need funding, wasting over $1.4 billion of state money on foreign mining companies is effectively prioritizing outside interests over the will and well-being of all Alaskans.

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