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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Statewide Management Action Plan (MAP) is an initiative emerging from the Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS) Improvement Working Group (FIWG). The FIWG includes representatives from the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Army, the Tribal Association of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Statewide MAP is intended to be a key document for managing the state’s FUDS environmental restoration program. This Statewide MAP intends to identify FUDS clean-up activities for the state, projected schedules, and project funding requirements. Included in this Statewide...
Solid Waste Management is severely deficient in rural Alaska. The majority of rural communities have unpermitted Class III landfills for waste disposal. These unpermitted landfills are commonly known as open dumps. Open dumps increase human health risks by exposure to solid and hazardous materials, including pathogens from human excreta disposed at dump sites due to lack of adequate solid waste, water and sewer facilities. Current federal and state policies lack adequate public health policies or public health actions to address this deficiency. This project analyzed five solid waste management policies that affect rural Alaska and provided three policy options and one public health action recommendation, including:...
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Six state, federal, and volunteer organizations cooperated with the Matanuska-Susitna Borouogh to restore and improve the Deshka River and Camground. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provided $15,000 and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation provided $45,000 for riverbank improvement.
The article examines the impacts of climate change on the transportation system of Alaska which has more than 6,600 miles of coastline, and an underlayer of permafrost in approximately 80 percent of its land mass. Its highways are revealed to be frequently icing, cracking and washing away due to the warming permafrost, coastal erosion and increasing storms. Heat is presented to increase subsurface water flow which in turn affects roads resulting in instability in surfaces and slopes.
Alaska Board of Fisheries website includes links to regulations, proposals, latest news, description of Board of Fisheries authority.
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State and industry sources in Alaska say if oil prices stay above $30 and natural gas prices above $5, explorers will make their way to the state's undeveloped prospective basins and ocean shelves. For example, state and federal geologists say there are several sedimentary basins within Interior Alaska that share broadly similar geological characteristics and probably contain natural gas, either as conventional gas or as coalbed methane. A case in point is Interior Alaska's Nenana Basin, which has geology and market proximity going for it. Another of Alaska's under-explored and undeveloped area is the relatively small Copper River Basin north of Valdez in a lowland area north of the Gulf of Alaska. The geology of...
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PURPOSE: The leasing of geothermal resources under lands administered by the U.S. Bureau of Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in the western United States is proposed. Affected states are Alaska California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New, Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The proposed action would make geothermal leasing decisions on pending lease applications submitted prior to January 1, 2005 and to facilitate geothermal leasing decisions on other existing and future lease applications and nominations on the federal mineral estate in the western United States. Approximately 142 million acres of public lands administered by the BLM and 160 million acres of USFS lands overlay...
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The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was an experiment and a radical departure from policies in creating corporations with all shareholders being equal. The replication of publicly traded corporate governance has created frustrations, inequities, and unintended consequences for thousands of Natives which can be righted only if the experiment is continued. This is not a history of land claims but an attempt to unravel a tangled web of leadership, political, and rural development issues that are intimately interwoven with ANCSA corporations. This paper is not about second guessing the leadership of the movement but about the need to understand how difficult it is to create rural development on corporate lands whose...
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PURPOSE: The provision of expanded visitor facilities and recreational opportunities in the south Denali region of Denali Park, Alaska is proposed. The plan would government management of the area until the year 2020. Over the past 20 years, general growth in the tourism industry statewide has brought more pressure for access to Alaska's wild lands. Visitation to the South Denali region has increased substantially in recent years and expanded recreational opportunities are needed. Three alternatives, including a No Action Alternative (Alternative A), which would support the 1997 Record of Decision for the South Side Denali Development Concept Plan and represent no change from the current policy, are considered in...
map background search result map search result map Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska: Managing assets for sustainability Community response to forest disturbance on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula SOUTH DENALI IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH, ALASKA ALL REPORTS COMBINED INTO THIS REFERENCE REF-ID 5654 The Alaska-Yukon-British Columbia borderlands: the world's largest contiguous protected area complex Alaska's Copper River : humankind in a changing world Data survey and sampling procedures to quantify recreation use of national forests in Alaska Knik Arm Crossing Area Shorebird Study. Final THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR ALASKA'S UNDEVELOPED BASINS River in-stream energy conversion (RISEC) characterization of Alaska sites Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska: Managing assets for sustainability Community response to forest disturbance on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula SOUTH DENALI IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH, ALASKA ALL REPORTS COMBINED INTO THIS REFERENCE REF-ID 5654 Knik Arm Crossing Area Shorebird Study. Final Alaska's Copper River : humankind in a changing world The Alaska-Yukon-British Columbia borderlands: the world's largest contiguous protected area complex River in-stream energy conversion (RISEC) characterization of Alaska sites Data survey and sampling procedures to quantify recreation use of national forests in Alaska THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR ALASKA'S UNDEVELOPED BASINS