A Road Will Run Through It
Help Save Moose Pass & Wolf Trail Lodge, Salmon, Bears, Wolves, Eagles, Trees, Spawning Salmon Streams, Moose Pass Residences, Businesses, Local Economy, Private Property Rights and save Tax Payers from Wasteful Spending .
Introduction
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” ― Ansel Adams
The Alaska State Department Of Transportation intends on widening the road using federal funds, the estimation is between 50 to 60 million or more depending on many factors, including a bike path, they want to build. This project is named: Seward Highway MP 25.5 to 36 Rehabilitation Project.
THE ALLEGED REASONS FOR THE PROPOSED ROAD IMPROVEMENT /WIDENING/DESTROYING PROPERTY ESPECIALLY THE SECTION OF THE ROAD WHERE THE LODGE SITS ARE NOT PROVEN REASONS
The Road Is Being Widened
Critical Habitat For Bears
Categorical Exclusion
The Categorial Exclusion Application needs to be reviewed for current facts in context to all the economic, community, and environmental impacts hitting Moose Pass. Under the NEPA FWA criteria it appears Moose Pass should, for the reasons provided within this website is due a full Environmental Impact Study.
The Lodge owner and his staff have made numerous inquiries to lawyers, conservationists, State and Federal agencies in regard to the Categorical Exclusion given to this project in 2018 under a Memorandum of Understanding the DOT has with Federal Highway Administration and the Categorical Exclusion given to the Alaska DOT which we believe is woefully inaccurate considering all the changes in 2023 impacting Moose Pass. Our facts gathered by asking residents and knowing the land along with the wildlife provide the reasons for scrutinizing the DOT’s original application, which we believe based in facts, failed to present a full or accurate picture of the harms this town will befall if the road is widened.
Presently, we have consulted with an environmental group who is having their legal team review these issues and see whether this is an issue they want to or can seek legal remedies for on behalf of the lodge and Moose Pass residents . With this said, it does not require legal knowledge to read statutes and Alaska DOT’s application and refute their findings based on the facts by the residents, not generalizations or biased entities, and also dispute that the Memorandum of Understanding is still valid, at least according to the Federal Highway Authority pursuant to their own website.
Brooke Estes, Moose Pass Resident and Business Owner
This section will cover how the current road project will be affecting this Moose Pass resident’s home and business. Pictures, videos and a Statement from Brooke can be found here.
Ken Perry
Moose Pass Resident
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This section will cover how the current road project will be affecting this Moose Pass resident’s home. A statement from Ken and pictures can be found in this section.
Jeff Estes
Moose Pass Resident
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This section will cover how the current road project will be affecting this Moose Pass resident’s home and business. Videos with a Statement from Jeff can be found here.
Steven Wilson
Moose Pass Resdident
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This section will cover how the current road project will be affecting this Moose Pass resident’s home. A statement from Steven in video can be found in this section.
Why Everyone
Should Care
Imagine if you will, buying a gorgeous plot of land, building hand hewn custom cabins, custom furniture, beside a spawning salmon stream, overlooking a lake, having wildlife feed off the stream, bringing your friends up to your place year after year that invest 50k or more per season on fishing, gifts, and restaurants to be told by a bureaucracy they will take your land. If you don’t like it too bad, they will take it by Eminent Domain. See, Alaska Department of Transportation page : Seward Highway MP 25.5 to 36 Rehabilitation Project. See also, Environmental Documents Programmatic Categorical Exclusion
Watershed & Wildlife Photos
These are our wildlife, fish friends that visit and or live on my land here at Wolf Trail Lodge. The aerial view of the stream is the salmon stream that feeds all these beautiful bears, eagles, and even wolves, which the DOT will destroy .
My Cabins
Opinions From The Owner of The Wolf Trail Lodge
The cost of this road is allegedly 60 million dollars or more to build but in terms of long term impacts it has a must higher price tag by destroying a historic multi- million dollar one-of-a-kind lodge with resident bears, wolves , eagles, spawning salmon, and a natural beauty the is unrivaled and is irreplaceable. This is just one resident, there is the historic store which has been in an Alaskan’s family hands since the 1930’s the DOT finds it is in their way, and also a man who home lives on a cliff that will get blasted but rest assured the DOT has insurance in case his home collapses, that is so reassuring.
FISH ARE MORE IMPORTANT!
Bring In More Money Than 11 Miles Of Road
The pictured spawning salmon stream feeds bears, eagles, an intact wolf pact and other wildlife non the land that the historic Wolf Trail Lodge sits upon. The stream is fed by the Cook Inlet where the fish swim from then spawn here, then swim back to the waters of the Kenai and ocean. Over the years million of fry have swam back and forth with all the challenges they face by predators, fishermen/women, pollution but they are now facing an even bigger threat because the State of Alaska Department of Transportation is proposing to destroy this stream by inserting a longer culvert, which is now being termed “smooth cylinders” but a culvert by any other name is still a culvert. Huge culverts/smooth cylinders are not good for spawning salmon, in fact culverts are being taken out of Washington State ordered by the Ninth Circuit
Larry Werner, Moose Pass Opinions
My name is Larry Werner, age 75, born and raised in Seward, now living in Anchorage. My father Jack served as a territorial Senator in Juneau in the early fifties, was very active in the Statehood movement, and helped craft our State Constitution….
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