Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will meet with members of a remote Alaska community to discuss a proposed road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
Interior Department spokesman Blake Androff says by email that the meeting was scheduled at the request of King Cove residents and Alaska's U.S. senators, Democrat Mark Begich and Republican Lisa Murkowski.
King Cove residents want to make the case in person for a one-lane gravel road cutting through the refuge that could transport King Cove residents to emergency medical care by way of an all-weather airport at nearby Cold Bay.
The road through the wilderness area is bitterly opposed by environmental groups.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week rejected a land trade that would have led to construction of the road.
Salazar to Discuss Proposed Refuge with King Cove
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JLaurens at 6:35 PM February 15, 2013
This will not serve the best interests of the Alaska people, but serve only those who choose to remain away from civilization. The necessity of building a road should be in proportion for the need of one.
