The U.S. Department of the Interior put up a hard road barricade on the Ambler Road project Friday when it announced it rejected the project’s right-of-way permit.
The Bureau of Land Management, which led the Ambler Road environmental assessment, determined that a 211-mile industrial haul road would cause irreparable harm to the environment, fish and wildlife and to the cultural and subsistence lifestyle of the dozens of Alaska Native villages along its proposed route…