OMG, heads are exploding reading this all over Alaska; part of the probelm is the "Alaskans of today" are different less civil I think. I am a life long Alaskan and I will never, ever get this duality we have, " Oh Please, please Uncle Sam can we have some more money'? Then when Unlce Sam says sure but just make sure you clean your room" " Up Yours you can't tell me what to do"!  Some Alaskans just don't get it and I think this article touhes on in it, we will fight tooth and nail to open our land to development so so Canadian Mining company or a Logging comany can plunder it all in the name of JOBs. But when it is protected the jobs created from that are what, worthless? Gates of the Arctic IS the economy in Bettles, ditto for Wrangel St Elias and McCarthy, same for Eagle and Yukon-Charley. Think of all the commerce created by Denali, no one would even slow down if that park was not there.  Put me in coach