Trump administration swaps land to cut road through Alaska wildlife refuge

FILE PHOTO: Pacific black brant fly past Mount Dutton over the Izembek Lagoon in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, in this U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) picture taken November 7, 2008. REUTERS/Kristine Sowl/USFWS/Handout via Reuters/File Photo

ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - The Trump administration has resurrected a plan to carve a road through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska, less than four months after a federal judge struck down an earlier plan as illegal.

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and the chief executive of an Alaska Native corporation signed an agreement to trade land in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska to allow construction of an unpaved road through what is now designated wilderness, Bernhardt's office said on Wednesday, providing a summary of the agreement.