Kobuk River Listed As One Of The Country's Most Endangered Rivers
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A long-running effort to build a road through part of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, crossing the wild Kobuk River in the process, to reach a proposed copper mine has landed the river on American Rivers' 2024 list of America’s Most Endangered Rivers®.
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 16th, 2024 2:30am