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The Eyak Preservation Council<\/a>, an organization formed in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, is dedicated to:<\/p>\n grassroots environmental and social change organization dedicated to promoting sustainable communities and protecting and preserving wild salmon habitat and Indigenous culture in the ancestral\u00a0Eyak<\/a>\u00a0homelands of the Prince William Sound and Copper River watersheds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n They are now fighting the Navy which wants to conduct live fire exercises in the Gulf of Alaska where the salmon grow to maturity.<\/p>\n The Navy is planning summer training exercises in the Gulf of Alaska for up to 42 days annually from April to October for a five-year period.<\/p>\n These “war games” will involve use of high-frequency and mid-frequency sonar for submarine exercises, plus a wide variety of live weapons and explosives – bombs, heavy deck guns, torpedoes, missiles, large carrier strikes (ships will be blown up & sunk; none of which will ever be recovered).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Click HERE to Sign their petition<\/a><\/p>\n