Alaska is no longer "The Last Frontier."  In the Frontier, advances are made for the good of the people.  No one bats an eyelash at the building of a road here and there.  In this case, the road could likely be built with a minimal impact on wildlife, but that's not the issue at stake...it is the sacred principles of lower 48 environmentalists that cannot be compromised in any way.  Alaska is now "The Last Wilderness."  The Federal government has mandated that it will be so, now and forever, and there is absolutely nothing that the citizens of Alaska can do to change that...not even powerful ones who are United State Senators, and most certainly not the lowly residents of a place like King Cove.