Many Alaskans revel in the biting air and the pure white of the winter landscape, not to mention the skiing, ice-climbing and snow machine-riding.

ECONOMIST: The state is getting warmer and no one's happy

They add that his land is accessible by foot and horseback during the summer, by snow machine during the winter, and by aircraft nearly all the year.

ECONOMIST: By bulldozer, across a national park

He's a lifelong commercial fisherman ... a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope ... a proud member of the United Steel Workers Union ... and world champion snow machine racer.

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