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Article: King Cove's road to reason.(Dock Talk)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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In the decade-long fury over a 9-mile single-lane road easement from the Aleut village of King Cove to Cold Bay, Alaska, proposed by the Aleut after several fatal plane crashes and deaths resulting from delayed medical care, a claim by environmental groups, western Alaska Native entities and other opponents that the route is really for transporting fish has grown increasingly louder as the road comes ever closer to being a reality.
This 238-acre easement is requested in exchange for 61,723 acres of state and tribal lands that would be deeded to the federal government, and marks a substantial increase from the 1998 offer of 650 acres of tribal lands. This would be ...