Special Report: Kotzebue residents want say if Arctic traffic brings military back to town – Arctic Shipping Series from the Koahnic Climate Desk

<a href="https://www.nativenews.net/arctic-shipping-series-kotzebue-residents-want-say-if-arctic-traffic-brings-military-back-to-town/" title="Special Report: Kotzebue residents want say if Arctic traffic brings military back to town – Arctic Shipping Series from the Koahnic Climate Desk" rel="nofollow"><img width="300" height="200" src="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/10084858/6.-summer-playing-on-sound2-300x200.jpeg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" style="float: left; margin-right: 20px;" link_thumbnail="1" srcset="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/10084858/6.-summer-playing-on-sound2.jpeg 1086w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/10084858/6.-summer-playing-on-sound2.jpeg 300w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/10084858/6.-summer-playing-on-sound2.jpeg 1024w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/10084858/6.-summer-playing-on-sound2.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Concerns about national security are heating up in the rapidly changing Arctic. In part three of her month-long Arctic Shipping series, Emily Schwing looks at how the U.S. Coast Guard's new seasonal airbase in Kotzebue, AK is affecting the community once home to a permanent Air Force station which closed in 1983.