Alaska
Anchorage Field Office Land Use Planning
BLM Anchorage Field Office lands include four planning areas:
- Ring of Fire, encompassing southcentral and southeast Alaska
- Bay (Bristol Bay and Goodnews Bay)
- Kobuk-Seward Peninsula
- Bering Sea/Western Interior in southwest Alaska
BLM will amend the Ring of Fire Resource Management Plan to consider whether portions of the Haines planning block meet requirements for designation as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern. A 90-day public scoping period for the Ring of Fire Amendment/Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement concluded in June 2009. BLM released a scoping report in September 2009, and is currently developing the Draft RMP/Supplemental EIS.
BLM is also preparing to amend the Ring of Fire RMP to address the 730-acre Campbell Tract Facility administrative site and Special Recreation Management Area in Anchorage. Visit the Campbell Tract land use planning Web page for further details.
The Bay RMP provides a framework for managing and allocating uses of 1.9 million acres of BLM-administered public lands in the Bristol Bay and Goodnews Bay regions of southwest Alaska. BLM released the Bay Record of Decision and Approved RMP in November 2008.
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. BLM's Central Yukon Field Office developed this plan with assistance from the Anchorage Field Office. The Kobuk-Seward Peninsula Proposed RMP and Final EIS was released in September 2007. The Record of Decision was released in September 2008.
BLM anticipates initiating land use planning for 10.8 million acres of BLM-administered lands in the Bering Sea/Western Interior planning area in 2013. These lands are currently managed under the 1981 Southwest Planning Area Management Framework Plan.
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