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public comment, Donlin Gold Draft EIS
“We believe that the proposed pipeline...can be built and operated without negatively impacting the Iditarod Trail....As we are talking about a mining project, a gold mining project at that, we find it interesting and perhaps
even a bit nostalgic and ironic, that the Iditarod Trail itself was created to service the gold fields near the town of Iditarod many, many years ago.”
STAN HOOLEY, PRESIDENT, IDITAROD TRAIL COMMITTEE
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Kongiganak is a coastal village situated on the Kuskokwim Bay, west of the mouth of the Kuskokwim River. Residents use snow machines and dogsleds in the winter and small boats in the summer to travel to Bethel and other surrounding villages.