Dept. of Interior decides animals are more valuable than people

thisnumbersdisconnected · Feb 26, 2014

Fox News: Feds to Alaskans: No road for humans, lots of land for animals

In one of Alaska's most remote outposts, where a thousand hardy souls make their homes, the Obama administration has put the fate of birds and bears above the lives of people, blocking construction of an 11-mile gravel trail connecting a tiny fishing hamlet to a life-saving airport.

For more than three decades the predominantly Aleut fishing community of King Cove has been fighting to build a one-lane,gravel track connecting the Cove to the nearby hamlet of Cold Bay. What they have gotten is 30 years of flat-out federal refusals or stall tactics.

Cove residents say a road is necessary so they can reach an all-weather airport in Cold Bay that will transport them to Anchorage, about 625 miles away, for medical treatment. They say that in emergency situations, it's a matter of life and death.
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But apparently it isn't a "matter of life and death" to the federal government, unless the subject is the animals the Interior Department has determined to be of more value than the life of an Aleut who may need medical attention at some point in the future.

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