Protect Alaska national parks from industrial mining

This petition is addressed to Ken Salazar (Secretary of the Interior )
Eligible Signatories: (If this field is left blank it is implied that all free people of this universe are eligible)

1 million acres of prime wolf, bear and salmon habitat adjacent to Lake Clark and Katmai national parks could be opened to new mining claims with the stroke of a pen.

Closed to mining since 1971, these wild Alaska lands are integral to Bristol Bay's salmon-supporting ecosystem that is anchored by these two great national parks.

A recommendation from the Bureau of Land Management to lift this mineral closure and expand a modern day gold rush was issued in the last days of the Bush Administration and we need your help to send this bad idea back to the drawing board.