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Seventy-seven Alaskan tribes are asking Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to end what they say is her “dangerous attempt to exchange lands at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.” The tribes say, by moving forward, the Secretary stands to jeopardize all federal Alaskan land protections and refuges.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to release a draft supplemental environmental impact statement that considers potential impacts of swapping lands within the federally managed Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and its sensitive Isthmus for a road corridor between the communities of King Cove and Cold Bay. The draft SEIS is expected within the next few weeks.
The land exchange would encompass lands across the Izembek Isthmus — a 3-mile-wide tundra wetland that, along with the adjacent…
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