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"/><meta property="og:title" content="The Biden administration is backing a Trump-era decision for a road through Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge"/><meta name="twitter:title" content="The Biden administration is backing a Trump-era decision for a road through Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge"/><meta property="og:image" content="https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/IA7FJZO4UBCQLL2H6EYCVL76FU.jpg?smart=true&auth=d736f30803426c8fbf17345124afbc3cd5330629c3b5705eb8b0a537d9447173&width=1200&height=630"/><meta property="og:image:alt" content="FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2013, file photo, a driver passes a small boat harbor in King Cove, Alaska. A federal court judge says Trump administration plans for a road through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska violates federal law. The order Friday, March 29, 2019 by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason halts plans for a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula. The refuge encompasses internationally recognized habitat for migrating waterfowl. (James Brooks/Kodiak Daily Mirror via AP, File)"/><meta name="twitter:image" content="https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/IA7FJZO4UBCQLL2H6EYCVL76FU.jpg?smart=true&auth=d736f30803426c8fbf17345124afbc3cd5330629c3b5705eb8b0a537d9447173&width=1200&height=630"/><meta name="twitter:image:alt" content="FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2013, file photo, a driver passes a small boat harbor in King Cove, Alaska. A federal court judge says Trump administration plans for a road through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska violates federal law. The order Friday, March 29, 2019 by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason halts plans for a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula. The refuge encompasses internationally recognized habitat for migrating waterfowl. 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Refuge</h1><div class="adn-byline "><span class=" author">By  <a class="author-link" href="/author/alex-demarban">Alex DeMarban</a></span><div class="adn-byline__date"><span class="datetext"> Published: March 10, 2021</span></div></div><article class="adn-article-body default"><figure class="c-media-item"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/IA7FJZO4UBCQLL2H6EYCVL76FU.jpg?auth=d736f30803426c8fbf17345124afbc3cd5330629c3b5705eb8b0a537d9447173&width=800&height=521" srcSet="https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/IA7FJZO4UBCQLL2H6EYCVL76FU.jpg?auth=d736f30803426c8fbf17345124afbc3cd5330629c3b5705eb8b0a537d9447173&width=274&height=178 274w, https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/IA7FJZO4UBCQLL2H6EYCVL76FU.jpg?auth=d736f30803426c8fbf17345124afbc3cd5330629c3b5705eb8b0a537d9447173&width=400&height=260 400w, https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/IA7FJZO4UBCQLL2H6EYCVL76FU.jpg?auth=d736f30803426c8fbf17345124afbc3cd5330629c3b5705eb8b0a537d9447173&width=768&height=500 768w, https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/IA7FJZO4UBCQLL2H6EYCVL76FU.jpg?auth=d736f30803426c8fbf17345124afbc3cd5330629c3b5705eb8b0a537d9447173&width=1024&height=666 1024w, https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/IA7FJZO4UBCQLL2H6EYCVL76FU.jpg?auth=d736f30803426c8fbf17345124afbc3cd5330629c3b5705eb8b0a537d9447173&width=1440&height=937 1440w" width="800" height="521"/><figcaption class="c-media-item__fig-caption"><span class="c-media-item__caption">In this Sept. 23, 2013, file photo, a driver passes a small boat harbor in King Cove, Alaska. (James Brooks/Kodiak Daily Mirror via AP, File) </span></figcaption></figure><p class="c-paragraph">The Biden administration is defending a Southwest Alaska land swap that was supported by the Trump administration, which aims to allow construction of an 11-mile road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.</p><p class="c-paragraph">Residents in the Alaska Peninsula community of King Cove have long sought the road, arguing it would provide access to emergency care, but conservation groups have sued to stop it, citing the importance of the 310,000-acre refuge to migrating waterfowl and other wildlife.</p><p class="c-paragraph">The Department of Justice on Monday <a href="https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20508798-docket-43-usdoi-reply" target=_blank>filed </a>a legal brief in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals defending a 2019 <a href="https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2019/07/24/deal-reached-for-land-swap-for-road-through-izembek-wildlife-refuge/" target=_blank>land exchange</a> between the Interior Department and King Cove’s Alaska Native village corporation. The land exchange would pave the way for the road.</p><p class="c-paragraph">The filing continues the federal government’s <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ca27f281021da70e5e1abc655ee593ae" target=_blank>appeal</a>, launched last year under former President Donald Trump, of a 2020 decision by District Court Judge John Sedwick of Anchorage rejecting the land exchange.</p><p class="c-paragraph">The Biden administration’s filing comes days after after Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski became the <a href="https://www.adn.com/politics/2021/03/04/senate-committee-advances-haaland-nomination-for-interior-secretary-with-murkowski-joining-democrats/" target=_blank>lone Republican</a> on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to join Democrats and advance the nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., to become President Joe Biden’s Interior Secretary.</p><p class="c-paragraph">Rep. Don Young has also <a href="https://www.adn.com/politics/2021/02/25/historic-nomination-of-deb-haaland-for-interior-secretary-spurs-hope-and-apprehension-in-alaska/" target=_blank>said</a> he supports Haaland and introduced her to the committee last month.</p><p class="c-paragraph">Alaska’s congressional delegation has long supported plans for the road outside King Cove, a village of 1,200.</p><div class="adn-adwrap display-all gutters"><div class="ad-label" style="color:#575757;margin:8px 0 4px">ADVERTISEMENT</div><div class="htlad-inline" data-unit="/ADN/adn/alaska-news/rural-alaska"></div></div><p class="c-paragraph"><i>[</i><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2021/03/09/biden-administration-promises-report-by-summer-on-suspension-of-oil-and-gas-sales-on-federal-lands-and-waters/"><i>Biden administration promises report by summer on suspension of oil and gas sales on federal lands and waters</i></a><i>]</i></p><p class="c-paragraph">The court filing marks a departure from other actions by Biden and his administration that the delegation has <a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2021/01/31/president-biden-is-swiftly-reining-in-oil-drilling-to-protect-the-climate-will-the-transition-leave-alaska-behind/" target=_blank>opposed</a>, including the president’s order temporarily blocking oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.</p><p class="c-paragraph">Murkowski’s office did not immediately provide comment on Tuesday.</p><p class="c-paragraph">Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, has not said how he will vote for Haaland when she comes before the Senate for confirmation.</p><p class="c-paragraph">He sees the court filing by the Biden administration as a “positive sign,” his office said.</p><p class="c-paragraph">“The senator hopes that the current administration will continue to support the road and the people who need it in order to get necessary medical attention,” Nate Adams, Sullivan’s press secretary, said in a statement.</p><figure class="c-media-item adn-article-body__image-float-left"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/KGLIYAR4CZBNZBMXBAJ2G36DOQ.jpg?auth=bcf7fa9b6073a626f9a6ca31ccbf77e1cbec66173d5ab7eb857a86da66acbdf1&width=400&height=562" srcSet="https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/KGLIYAR4CZBNZBMXBAJ2G36DOQ.jpg?auth=bcf7fa9b6073a626f9a6ca31ccbf77e1cbec66173d5ab7eb857a86da66acbdf1&width=137&height=192 137w, https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/KGLIYAR4CZBNZBMXBAJ2G36DOQ.jpg?auth=bcf7fa9b6073a626f9a6ca31ccbf77e1cbec66173d5ab7eb857a86da66acbdf1&width=200&height=281 200w, https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/KGLIYAR4CZBNZBMXBAJ2G36DOQ.jpg?auth=bcf7fa9b6073a626f9a6ca31ccbf77e1cbec66173d5ab7eb857a86da66acbdf1&width=384&height=539 384w, https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/KGLIYAR4CZBNZBMXBAJ2G36DOQ.jpg?auth=bcf7fa9b6073a626f9a6ca31ccbf77e1cbec66173d5ab7eb857a86da66acbdf1&width=512&height=719 512w, https://www.adn.com/resizer/v2/KGLIYAR4CZBNZBMXBAJ2G36DOQ.jpg?auth=bcf7fa9b6073a626f9a6ca31ccbf77e1cbec66173d5ab7eb857a86da66acbdf1&width=720&height=1011 720w" width="400" height="562"/><figcaption class="c-media-item__fig-caption"><span class="c-media-item__caption">Cold Bay and King Cove </span></figcaption></figure><p class="c-paragraph">Young said in a statement he’s excited the administration is supporting the road.</p><p class="c-paragraph">“It’s the right thing to do,” he said. “It’s good for the community, good for the state of Alaska, and good for the rights of the Native people.”</p><p class="c-paragraph">The agreement would trade land in the refuge for land of equal value owned by King Cove Corp.</p><p class="c-paragraph">Under questioning from Murkowski in the Senate energy committee hearing, Haaland said that she would meet with with King Cove residents about their desire for the road. Residents have argued a road is needed to reach a jet-accessible airport in Cold Bay, where people can be taken to hospitals in Anchorage or elsewhere.</p><p class="c-paragraph">Attempts to build the road have failed for decades, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2013, under former President Barack Obama, said it would damage the Izembek watershed.</p><p class="c-paragraph">Della Trumble with the King Cove Corp. declined to comment on Tuesday, saying the issue is an ongoing legal matter. The corporation is a defendant in the case, alongside former Interior secretary David Bernhardt.</p><p class="c-paragraph">Conservation groups, led by Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges, <a href="https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20508896-document" target=_blank>argued</a> in an appeal brief in January that the land deal violates requirements in the 1980 law that established Izembek as a refuge, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.</p><p class="c-paragraph"><i>[</i><a href="https://www.adn.com/politics/2021/02/25/historic-nomination-of-deb-haaland-for-interior-secretary-spurs-hope-and-apprehension-in-alaska/" target=_blank><i>Historic nomination of Deb Haaland for Interior secretary spurs hope and apprehension in Alaska</i></a><i>]</i></p><p class="c-paragraph">The Justice Department argued in its filing that Sedwick made three errors in his decision last year, including that the land exchange must “on balance further environmental protection.”</p><p class="c-paragraph">The 1980 law instead “requires only that land exchanges be for equal monetary value” and that the land to be acquired furthers the purpose of the law, which includes providing for the social and economic needs of Alaskans, the Justice Department argued.</p><p class="c-paragraph">“In agreeing to the land exchange, Interior reasonably balanced the interests of the people of Alaska and the conservation of Alaska’s natural resources, as intended by ANILCA,” the Justice Department argued.</p><div class="adn-adwrap display-all gutters"><div class="ad-label" style="color:#575757;margin:8px 0 4px">ADVERTISEMENT</div><div class="htlad-inline" data-unit="/ADN/adn/alaska-news/rural-alaska"></div></div><p class="c-paragraph">“To deny the residents of King Cove the opportunity to pursue the building of a light-use road to access a medical evacuation facility would fail to ‘provide adequate opportunity for satisfaction of the economic and social needs’ of the Alaskan people,” contrary to the express intent of the law, the agency argued.</p><p class="c-paragraph">Brook Brisson, an attorney with Trustees for Alaska, representing the plaintiffs, asserted on Tuesday that for decades, the attempt to build the road has been based on commercial interests. Opponents of the road have argued that it would support the fishing industry in King Cove.</p><p class="c-paragraph">The land deal under Bernhardt did not include restrictions on commercial use, Brisson said.</p><p class="c-paragraph"><a href="https://www.alaskajournal.com/2019-08-09/court-fight-over-king-cove-road-enters-third-round">A previous land exchange</a> under the Trump administration, also rejected by the Alaska district court, prohibited commercial use for the road.</p><p class="c-paragraph">“In June 2020, the District Court found, for the second time, that a land exchange did not meet core legal requirements given the many prior decisions declining to allow a road through Izembek,” Brisson said in a statement.</p><p class="c-paragraph">“It’s also important to note that studies have shown that there are safe ways for the community to have access to emergency medical care that avoid putting a dangerous and damaging road through Izembek that will be at times impassible,” Brisson said.</p></article><div class="adn-adwrap display-all"><div class="htlad-outstream" data-unit="/ADN/adn/alaska-news/rural-alaska"></div></div><div class="c-stack adn-author-bio" data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap"><div class="c-stack adn-author-bio__author" data-style-direction="horizontal" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap"><div class="c-stack" data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap"><a class="c-link adn-author-bio__author-name-link" href="/author/alex-demarban/"><h2 class="c-heading adn-author-bio__author-name">Alex DeMarban</h2></a><p class="c-paragraph adn-author-bio__author-description">Alex DeMarban is a longtime Alaska journalist who covers business, the oil and gas industries and general assignments. 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