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June 27, 2017

Interior OKs survey for Alaska wilderness road

  • A national wildlife refuge stands between the town of King Cove and an all-weather airport in Cold Bay.
  • By DAN JOLING
    Associated Press

    ANCHORAGE — A proposed road through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska, rejected by President Barack Obama, is getting new life in the Donald Trump administration.

    Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, an independent, announced Monday that the U.S. Interior Department has granted Alaska permission to survey wilderness within Izembek National Wildlife Refuge for a possible road between two rural communities, King Cove and Cold Bay, near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula.


     
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