Bureau of Land Management

About 70 people turned out for an at times emotional Bureau of Land Management meeting in Kotzebue earlier this month. Many shared concerns over the controversial Ambler Road project, a proposed 211-mile industrial road that would branch off west from the Dalton Highway.

According to a press release from BLM, the S-EIS evaluated potential subsistence impacts to 66 communities, more than two times as many as were identified in a previous assessment.

Most of the comments criticized BLM’s process and presentation rather than the project itself.