Boosters of a mining road in the backcountry northwest of Anchorage are poised to get a $100,000 federal grant for trail work. Some locals see it as part of an under-the-radar effort to push the road forward.
The Denali Commission, a federal agency based in Anchorage, is known for funding mundane infrastructure upgrades in rural Alaska. Think waste management, heating systems and broadband — critical though not exactly attention-grabbing stuff.That project is a state-proposed industrial road through the wilds northwest of Anchorage that would help mining companies reach remote deposits and open up large areas of public land for recreation. The effort has the support of Republican Gov.
The stir over Friends of West Susitna’s winter trail work marks the latest conflict in a long-running debate over increasing access to the wild region west of the Susitna River — a major waterway that starts high in the Alaska Range and flows south into Cook Inlet, some 25 miles west of Anchorage. State and local officials, resource development companies, and many Susitna Valley residents have been pushing for years to build an industrial road across the river and into the region, promoting the area’s potential to stimulate economic growth through mining, logging and other industries.
Williams said he sees Friends of West Susitna’s winter trail maintenance proposal as a subtle way to advance the state road project by justifying use of the same route. He questions whether there is already a trail where the group is now proposing to widen one: Prior to a one-day snowmachine race last year, he said, the trail didn’t exist.to state land managers asks for a public easement for the group to widen an existing 5-foot-wide trail to 18 feet.
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