Speak Out to Stop a Copper Mine that Threatens Wildlife and Sacred Tribal Homelands

Mountain lions, bobcats, badgers, and coati are just a few of the diverse wildlife species that make their home at Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, also known as Oak Flat, within Arizona’s Tonto National Forest. The lands are also sacred ancestral homelands of many Tribes in the Southwest.

But the wildlife, lands, and Indigenous sites of Oak Flat are threatened by the transfer of these lands for a giant copper mine that would hollow out a crater 1,000-feet deep and almost 2 miles wide and create 1.4 billion tons of toxic mine tailings covering more than 14 square miles. Congress can stop this destructive mine from moving forward. Please tell your representative in Congress to support and help pass the Save Oak Flat from Foreign Mining Act.

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I am calling on you to stop the transfer of public lands at Oak Flat within Arizona’s Tonto National Forest by fully supporting and helping to pass Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva (AZ-07)’s newly introduced Save Oak Flat from Foreign Mining Act.

Countless wildlife species that I care about and sacred Indigenous sites are threatened by this public land transfer which will allow the development of a planned giant copper mine that would leave behind a hollowed out crater 1,000-feet deep and almost 2 miles wide. The planned copper mine would not only devastate Oak Flat, but also destroy ancestral homelands of the San Carlos Apache, the Yavapai, Hopi, Zuni, and many other Tribes in the Southwest.

In addition, the mine will leave behind a 14.4 square mile site to store and manage 1.4 billion tons of toxic waste and tailings in perpetuity – that will pose grave danger to wildlife, downstream towns, and communities.

Please do not allow this land transfer, or any mine, to move forward across the nearly 2,500 acres of our country’s national forest lands that make up Oak Flat.  Do all that you can to strongly support and quickly pass the Save Oak Flat from Foreign Mining Act.

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