Page 4 - Brooks Range News Today

Fish and Game just completed Stage 2 of its "Brooks Range Dall Sheep Research Project." The Alaska Rural Veterinary Outreach program is calling a clinic in Dillingham a huge success.

Conservation groups are rejoicing over the decision Friday by the Biden administration to reject a proposed mining road in Alaska. The 211-mile Ambler Road would have sliced through the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, severing the migration route for a Western Arctic Caribou herd. Alex Johnson, interior Alaska director for the National Parks Conservation Association, said it was important for the feds to take a stand in Alaska so mining interests do not start eyeing other natio...

A river guide’s thoughts on the occasion of Earth Day.

Alaska has suffered from more environmental meddling from Washington bureaucrats than any other state in the country.

Citing what they characterized as unacceptable risks to wildlife habitat, water quality and the Native communities that depend on natural resources, the Biden administration on Friday rejected the controversial plan to put a 211-mile industrial road through largely wild areas of the Brooks Range foothills. The decision came in a supplemental environmental impact statement released […] The post Biden administration rejection of Ambler road project both panned and celebrated in Alaska appea...

Hunters and anglers fought to oppose a 211-mile industrial corridor that would have disrupted fish habitat and bisected ancient caribou migration routes in Alaska

The Biden administration recommended rejecting permits for a 211-mile gravel industrial haul road to the Ambler Mining District on Friday, citing extensive environmental concerns and overwhelming public objection by environmental

The decisions underscore the Biden administration’s attempt to curb mining and drilling on public lands.

Alaska’s U.S. senators and representatives of resource-extraction industries accused the Biden administration on Thursday of breaking federal laws by rejecting a controversial plan to build a road through the Brooks Range foothills and making final rules that strengthen environmental protections on federal land on the western side of the North Slope. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, […] The post Alaska’s U.S. senators say pending decisions on Ambler road and NPR-A are illegal ...

The Biden administration expanded federal protections across millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness on Friday, blocking oil, gas and mining operations in some of the most unspoiled land in the country.