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The environmental review process is beginning for a controversial new road in Alaska’s Arctic

By Yereth Rosen, Arctic Now December 6, 2017
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Should an Alaska state agency be allowed to build a 211-mile road into the wilds of the Brooks Range to enable mine development in a remote part of the Arctic?

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