The BLM Anchorage Field Office is actively engaged in three land use planning efforts.

 

BLM released the Record of Decision for the Ring of Fire Resource Management Plan on March 31, 2008. This plan will provide management guidance for resource decisions on 1.3 million acres of BLM-administered public land in southeast and southcentral Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.

 

The Bay plan will provide a framework for managing and allocating uses of 1.9 million acres of BLM-administered public lands in the Bristol Bay and Goodnews Bay areas of southwest Alaska. The Bay Proposed Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement was released December 7, 2007.

 

The Kobuk-Seward Peninsula planning area encompasses approximately 12 million acres of BLM-administered lands in northwestern Alaska, including 3.5 million acres within the Anchorage Field Office boundary. The BLM's Central Yukon Field Office developed this plan with assistance from the Anchorage Field Office. The Kobuk-Seward Peninsula Proposed Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement was released September 28, 2007.

 

Ultimately the Anchorage Field Office will initiate land use planning for lands not covered by the above plans. This will include BLM-administered lands in the Bering Sea/western Alaska region. Future land use planning is dependent on funding.