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Bristol Bay is a beautiful place! It has so much wildlife and and beautiful places. The largest number of sockey salmon swim here. Some scientist say that tens of millions of salmon live here. Bears, eagles, whales, seals, birds, otters, fish, wolves, many other animals and everyone in Bristol Bay eats salmon and needs salmon to survive! For thousands of years people have lived off the salmon not only for food but also from the money they get from catching and selling salmon.



But there is a 2,000-foot-deep and two-mile-wide mine. It is called Pebble Mine. A mine is large area where a lot of coal or valuable metal is found. People used to dig it out, now people use mountain top removal. Pebble Mine is really close to the rivers and streams that the salmon and so much wildlife live. If people start mining this area, poisons and pollution will go into the water. There will be about 9 billion tons of waste!! It will kill EVERYTHING!!! If it kills everything, it will never come back!



Some people want to mine Pebble Mine because there is a lot of money to be made. It will give some people jobs for only about 50 years. Some people say that everything will be safe. Some people call this mine a gold mine because of the amount of money bring. Other people call the salmon and the wildlife the real gold. What do you think is the real gold?