Art,
Roads hurt hunting more than help it in the long run.
Federal land is federal land--everybody gets a say. That's like saying only the residents in San Diego can say how to operate the USS Reagan. Or only the residents in Anchorage can dictate deployment and operations at Elmendorf--which is where I was stationed in the late 70's before most of the "Alaskans" on this thread moved to the Great White North.
Speaking in absolutes is absolutely wrong.
The Federal gov promised to turn over many millions of acres to the State under the 1959 Statehood compact. They have given us a tiny fraction of that land. They allowed Native groups to cut the heart out of the promised land and the State still has not gotten much. They allowed the largest conversion of Federal lands to Parks and untouchable units before we got lands promised decades earlier. There is zero reason to allow others to tell us how to manage State lands and until we get our promised lands.
Like it or not, being unable to access AK without significant expense, risk, time investment, and effort has left us chewing up a fair amount of AK by overuse while vast tracts see virtually no use. It is absolutely a quality issue and we do not care how it is done outside.
