By Walt Hickey Road The big ice roads in Alaska — the ones that have television shows — are in service to the oil extraction and mining industries predominantly, but networks of resident-supported ice roads connecting remote areas cut off from major population centers are a staple of Alaskan life. For instance, over the past several years, come winter the iced over Kuskokwim River is plowed into a road, maintained by three plow trucks and three graders for about