Ted Stevens: “Without quick action and planning regarding modernization, we are on the precipice of aviation gridlock.”

In 2003, Alaska's own Senator Ted Stevens singled out Alaska Tribes for exceptionally harsh financial restrictions.

They are not numbers. They were people, living, breathing, caring, loving people. And they're not anymore. And there is no rational explanation as to why not.

It is the wrong mine for the wrong place.

The whole purpose of the Act is to protect our fisheries and have a conservation ethic to be the major goal.