Service to Prepare Environmental Impact Statement for the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge Land Exchange
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it has published a Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a proposed three-party land exchange that would allow a road to be constructed between the communities of King Cove and Cold Bay. The exchange would add 56,393 acres to the Izembek and Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuges, designate 43,000 acres as wilderness, transfer 1,600 acres of refuge lands on Sitkinak Island to the State, and create a 206-acre, 9-mile corridor through Izembek Refuge upon which the road would be constructed.
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