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Under normal circumstances, building a one-lane, nine-mile gravel road would not seem much of a problem. You have to be suspicious, though, when its chief sponsor is Representative Don Young, second only to Senator Ted Stevens in bringing pork-barrel projects to Alaska. And you’d be right. This road would bisect an extraordinary wildlife refuge in the middle of federally protected wilderness.

The first step in this would be supporting NREPA, would it not?

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A “very vigorous campaign” is under way to protect the Rocky Mountain Front, including an effort to add more acreage to the Bob Marshall Wilderness, the head of the state’s oldest and largest wilderness advocacy group said Friday

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The federal government is under a judge’s order to reconsider an earlier decision against listing the sage grouse as endangered, and wildlife biologists are scouring the species’ customary mating grounds to see how many are left.

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Ewins called the committee’s recommendation not to change the polar bear’s status “an easy way out.”