From: jlentz [jjlentz@verizon.net]
Sent: December 16, 2008 6:33 PM
To: lpayette@nirb.ca
Subject: Uravan Minerals Application

Dear Sirs,

I was a member of the third party to descend the Back River when our four-man group completed a successful run of the entire river in 1962. A major experience was paddling through Pelly and Garry Lakes and viewing the caribou there. We had articles in Sports Illustrated and The Explorers Journal, magazine of The Explorers Club. Many paddlers followed.

I am very concerned to learn of the sharp fall-off in the size of the Beverly caribou herd. Such a decline will require careful management to bring it back, a situation incompatible with mining "development"  
in the area of Garry Lake. Thus, I would like to register my opposition to the application of Uravan Minerals for a uranium mining permit.

Any mine will come and then go. All of us hope the caribou will be with us forever.

Thank you for your consideration.

John W. Lentz
5424 Mohican Road
Bethesda, Maryland
USA 20816