Bustling Seattle was building one freeway after another in the 1960s and 70s. One was going to slice right through the Washington Park Arboretum, until citizen activists stopped it in its tracks.
Across the border in British Columbia's Skagit River headwaters, a proposed open-pit mine has drawn protests from Native tribes, environmentalists and politicians.
The federal government helped make the islands a national monument. But locals worry a Trump-era focus on making public lands productive could be their undoing.
The private bid includes plans for 175 units of affordable housing on the site, $78.2 million for housing investment and $5 million to deal with homelessness.
In a reversal that likely transfers authority to EPA headquarters, southwest Alaska's Pebble Mine gets closer to being built despite concerns for the bay's productive fisheries.