Alaska Native corporation seeking OK to build winter roads in Arctic refuge coastal plain

By: Yereth Rosen

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: January 29, 2026

Words: 1,140

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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An Alaska Native corporation is seeking permission from the Trump administration to build seasonal roads that would cross through part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the next two decades.

The Kaktovik Iñupiat Corporation has applied for a 20-year right-of-way that would allow construction of ice and snow roads connecting the village to Deadhorse, an industrial community at the edge of the Prudhoe Bay oil field and located about 120 miles to the …

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