ANCHORAGE — The federal government said Tuesday it rejected a plan to build a road through a wildlife refuge that would have given a small Aleut village in Alaska better access to medical care.
Villagers in remote King Cove had sought the one-lane gravel road for transporting emergency medical patients to an all-weather airport in Cold Bay, but the US Fish and Wildlife Service said it will choose the ‘‘no action’’ alternative to a proposed land swap for a road corridor bisecting Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
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It's unfortunate that people die due to a lack of rapid medical care but c'mon now.... when you live that far out, you have to know and accept what the potential consequences are. I'm glad they decided to take a pass on builing this access road.
I'm not sure what wildlife would have been disrupted by a one-lane gravel road. Obviously the residents of this small Aleut village don't have enough political clout to matter. Very sad.