A 19-mile road is about to cut through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, one of the most important migratory bird habitats on Earth. Construction on the first section could begin as early as August 8. Sign to demand the courts stop this project before it destroys irreplaceable wilderness.

Izembek Lagoon, on Alaska's remote Alaska Peninsula, is where nearly the entire global population of Pacific black brant geese stops to feed and rest during migration. Millions of other migratory waterfowl and shorebirds depend on the refuge's coastal lagoons and wetlands every year. In July, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit to fill those wetlands for a road connecting the small village of King Cove to the Cold Bay airport. Tribal governments and environmental organizations say the permit is illegal because the Corps never fully assessed what this road would do to the wetlands and the wildlife that depend on them.

Three Yup'ik tribal governments, the Native Village of Hooper Bay, the Native Village of Paimiut, and the Chevak Native Village, along with environmental groups including the Sierra Club, Alaska Wilderness League, and Center for Biological Diversity, have now filed federal lawsuits to stop the project. The land being handed over was previously designated wilderness. Once it's gone, it's gone.

Sign the petition to stop the road through Izembek before construction begins and this wilderness is lost forever.