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The Rampart Dam proposal for Yukon River

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Alan Cooke
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The economic foundation of Alaska is not sufficiently broad and diversified to be secure. For twenty years past, the economy has been bolstered by heavy expenditures of federal funds, first on the building and manning of large military installations, more recently on the building and manning of DEW-line and BMEWS radar sites. But in the last few years, finding expenditure of military money within the State much reduced, Alaskan businessmen and legislators have become increasingly eager to secure the interest of other agencies capable of investing large sums in programmes of construction and development.

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Polar Record , Volume 12 , Issue 78 , September 1964 , pp. 277 - 280
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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Publications that have carried editorials and articles offering reasons against the Rampart Dam proposal include: Alaska Conservation Society. News Bulletin. Alaska Sportsman. Indian Affairs (Newsletter of the Association on American Indian Affairs). Tundra Times (Newspaper edited by and for Alaskan natives, published in Fairbanks twice monthly). The editorial policy of most Alaskan newspapers and, in particular, that of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner appears to favour the proposal.Google Scholar