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 in March 2008. This plan provides 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 Resource Management Plan 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 on November 14, 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. 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 in September 2007. The Record of Decision was released in September 2008.

 

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.