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"We recognize the potential for mineral extraction in this area and in associated mineral leases, but remain convinced the long-term value of maintaining wildlife habitat far outweighs the potential benefits of possible development projects known at this time."
--Alaska Board of Game, March 26, 2008
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"It is my position that the importance of the Denali Block [state lands surrounding Tangle Lakes] as wildlife habitat, tourist destination, sport fishing, subsistence and sport hunting, subsistence food gathering and trapping area exceeds all mining value. All these uses except mining have minimal impact on the land and are renewable yearly."
--Robert Tobey, Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game, Glennallen, December 19, 2002
"Are the minerals more valuable than what we already have here?"
--John Schandelmeier, long-time Paxson resident and two-time Yukon Quest winner
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"The hunting and fishing residents we represent, and our children and their children, deserve to have this area protected from the long-term damage large scale industrial mining inevitably causes.
--Louise Seguela, Secretary, Alaska Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, July 10, 2008
"In the mid-1970's, I spent three summers studying nesting behavior of gyrfalcons in much of the area…and I know there are excellent wildlife resources, especially for birds…I am also aware of several archeological sites within the proposed refuge. One was named for stone points that I reported in 1975. They should be protected."
--Peter Bente, Nome, AK, February 16, 2007
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"As many as 5,000 caribou have wintered around the Tangle Lakes in recent years. Caribou behavior usually results in caribou seeking different winter ranges every year to take advantage of forage availability on ungrazed range. The fact that caribou have wintered in the Tangle Lakes area on an almost every other year basis shows this range is important. The area is also an important fall staging and rutting area used by up to 20,000 caribou in recent years...
--Robert Tobey, Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game, Glennallen, December 19, 2002
"The Tangle Lakes system contains primarily Grayling and Burbot. Large numbers of sport fishermen target the Tangle Lakes System and adjacent streams such as Rock Creek."
--Kenneth Roberson, retired ADFG Fisheries Biologist, 2007