The “Big Beautiful Cook Inlet” will remain beautiful, as the “Big Beautiful Cook Inlet” oil and gas lease sale received no bids for drilling.

Trump’s Department of the Interior offered up more than one million acres off Alaska’s Cook Inlet and received no bids during the Fed. 2-March 4 2026 lease sale.

The inlet is home to a drove of unique creatures, such as beleaguered beluga whales, sea otters, and migratory birds.

The total failure of a sale, suspected to be influenced by politics, rather than practical energy needs, proves what Friends of Animals has always known: that drilling has no place here.

FoA’s efforts to preserve Alaska’s wilderness have been ongoing for nearly a quarter century and will continue.

In the spring of 2001, FoA delivered a report to members of Congress detailing the ways in which oil drilling would cause irreversible damage to Alaska’s ecosystem and voicing our opposition to any legislation that would permit it.

Friends of Animals will continue watching what unfolds and rallying against any plan that might harm the Cook Inlet.