The Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Project is a proposed industrial haul road that would connect the Dalton Highway to the area around the Ambler Mining District, allowing for future mining
President Donald Trump signs an executive order approving the project on October 6, 2025
A group of caribou from the Western Arctic Herd, which migrates through the region
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve is a national park of the United States that protects portions of the Central Brooks Range in northern Alaska. The park is the northernmost national park
Ambler Road
…to AIDEA in 2013. The 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act required the National Park Service to grant right-of-way access through Gates of the Arctic National Park to a road providing access to the Ambler Mining District. However, as the proposed road would have to pass through areas managed by the BLM, it was…
Group of hikers overlooking a glacier in the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.
A pair of hikers climbs toward a high pass in the Central Brooks Range.
Wolverine on the bank of the Noatak River