The interior secretary must reject a land exchange to build a road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness.
. The land exchange attempted to give to the King Cove Corporation the surface and subsurface estate of critically important national properties within the heart of the Wildlife Refuge in return for unspecified lands owned by KCC., food security and cultural heritage.
What would this precedent allow in the future? The secretary of agriculture could, through land exchanges, provide corporations with thousands of acres of prime, financially valuable old-growth trees in the middle of the Tongass National Forest, together with road corridors to reach those areas. Thewould, for all practical purposes, be undone. That rule restored roadless protections to over 9.3 million acres of roadless areas.
Corporations and the state of Alaska could similarly ask for acreage in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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