A Parking Lot In Paradise
25 February 2002 - 1:00pm
Unless environmentalists get moving, an access road in Alaska may spell the end of an artic wilderness.
Congress intended the elevated gravel road as an access road to carry supplies to the oil workers. Congress said that when the oil ran out, the road would be dismantled. Then former Interior Secretary Watt ceded the right of way to Alaska, and the state broke the deal. Now open to tourists, campers and hunters, the road will likely stay, bringing with it hunting lodges,restaurants, shops, airfields and other amenities of civilization. Congress needs to reclaim and reclose this road.
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Paving Paradise to Put Up a Parking Lot
Source:
The Los Angeles Times, February 24, 2002
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