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The Bureau of Land Management announces virtual public meetings for Central Yukon draft plan and analysis
Proposal would guide future management of about 13M acres in central Alaska area
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host six virtual public meetings Jan. 26-28 and Feb. 2-4 regarding the recently published Central Yukon Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/EIS).
The draft plan, released for a 90-day public comment period Dec. 11, describes how the BLM proposes to manage about 13 million acres of public lands including a utility corridor along the Dalton Highway for the next 15-20 years.
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Nobody was happy with the Berlaimont plan during a virtual meeting on Thursday, but that was to be expected not only because of the controversial nature of the proposal but also because the session was a formal objections hearing.
A staunch cadre of Berlaimont opponents lined up in front of their computer screens as the U.S. Forest Service reviewing officer for the project conducted the session.
The Berlaimont Estates proposal calls for dividing a 680-acre property located north of Interstate 70 in the Edwards area an in-holding surrounded by U.S. Forest Service property into 19 parcels of 35 acres or more. Parcels of that size are exempt from county zoning review but the developers must access the site through U.S. Forest Service land, which set off the federal review process.
The Trump Administration is planning on auctioning off drilling rights to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska beginning Jan. 6 of next year, just two weeks before the inauguration of president-elect Joe Biden. This last-minute effort to pursue oil drilling in the ANWR has sparked disputes that are greater than ever before.
Controversy over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is not a recent development. In fact, debates over oil drilling began in 1980 when President Carter signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act which gave rights to develop oil reserves in the Arctic Refuge as long as congressional approval was granted.
Far North writings of the Muries and words from the wild December 24, 2020 12:56pm Text size Copy shortlink:
• Margaret Murie, Two in the Far North
• Adolph Murie, A Naturalist in Alaska (John Burroughs Medal winner)
• Louise Murie cataloged then-Mount McKinley s vegetation, but it remains unpublished.
Quotable I want to be back again, with a loaded sled creaking its way over rough ice or running smoothly and quietly over level places, with a good team of dogs trotting steadily in front, muzzles low, tails waving high and the snow stretching away until broken by the blue line of woods where we might camp for the night. Olaus Murie in Journeys to the Far North (1973). I am testifying as an emotional woman and I would like to ask you, gentlemen, what s wrong with emotion? Beauty is a resource in and of itself. Alaska must be allowed to be Alaska, that is her greatest economy. I hope the United State