We live 90 miles up the dirt road past Chicken. The local Park Service, BLM, Fish & Wildlife people are usually all ok; most become well liked residents. The bosses in Fairbanks, ect are all political appointees that continually stir up trouble when the Dems are in office. Often you find the local Fed people are at odds with the bosses. This sort of thing has been going on since Carter's Days, every 10 years or so you have a created confrontation; probably one of the reasons Alaska is such a conservative state. Dem Feds in power want another Waco, locals have seen this game before and know what the outcome will be, it has occurred many times before. In the end, Fairbanks bosses heads roll, low level employees are blamed, fired, removed, transferred. Locals know the feds would luv to bring in the storm troopers, so cooler heads prevail. Nobody starts shooting feds in their vehicles or in their boats from the woods and you best believe the locals are armed to the teeth. If they did, the good local fed people probably be shot by mistake and locals don't want that.
So after a blow up, Fed political appointees won't show their faces, they make the low level fed employees come to town to face the locals, and I remember once years back they had to escort Fed boss outta town under police protection,(he was in fear for his life, but I think he was scared of his own shadow).
These problems are best handled by the Governor, our Senators, and Donny Young (now that boy hates the Feds more then I even do, ha ha and I'm glad of that). Actually Begich & Murkowski do get involved too. Enough of these problems occur and policy does change, for awhile; then it all goes away once the Repubs get back in D.C. and that's the bottomline. I think this is just part of our Nation's History.