The people living there need the road. As for bringing in homeless folks? Won't happen, too rough an area to live in. Without the road the village is likely to die. As for hurting the wildlife? That is what was said about the Haul Rd. The Caribou have grown ten fold since the road was put in. But this road would have little impact on the local wildlife.
As for places where roads are needed in Alaska, there are many. Every one of you that live in the lower 48 can just jump in your car and drive to your state capital. We have to fly in, if the weather is good. If we happen to live in Southeastern we can use a boat if the weather is good. Our Capital is more accessible to Seattle than to Anchorage. Check out a map of Alaska someday. Count the highways we have. No other state is so inaccessible. We were promised to be connected by rail to the lower 48 at Statehood, has not happened yet, and it's been over 50 years.
I along with some think we should just take all our Gold, Copper, Molybdenum, Silver, Oil, and Gas, and just go our separate way. Completely kicking the Federal Government out of our state. Statehood was a big mistake. At least when the Civil War starts in the lower 48, we can lock our ports and only do business with Asia, cutting off the lower 48 completely. Canada would help.
