BLM Alaska
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What We Manage
BLM Alaska manages more surface and subsurface acres than any other state with BLM-managed lands. This includes approximately 72 million surface acres and 220 million subsurface acres (Federal mineral estate) in a state with a landmass equivalent to about one-fifth of the entire contiguous United States. In FY2014, the BLM’s management of public lands in Alaska had a total economic impact of more than $372 million.
BLM Alaska manages the following National Conservation Lands Units:
- Steese National Conservation Area (1.2 million acres)
- Iditarod National Historic Trail (418 Miles), for which the BLM is the administrator
- Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River (111 miles)
- Birch Creek Wild and Scenic River (126 miles)
- Delta Wild and Scenic River (62 miles)
- Fortymile Wild and Scenic River (392 miles)
- Gulkana Wild and Scenic River (181 miles)
- Unalakleet Wild and Scenic River (80 miles)
- Central Arctic Management Area (326,000 acres)
BLM Alaska manages the agency's only National Recreation Area. Located just an hour's drive from Fairbanks, Alaska, the 1-million-acre White Mountains National Recreation Area offers 12 public-use cabins, stunning scenery, peaceful solitude, and outstanding opportunities for year-round recreation.
Visitor or Outdoor Education Centers
- Campbell Creek Science Center and Campbell Tract (730 acres)
- BLM Public Information Centers (Anchorage and Fairbanks)
- Arctic Interagency Visitor Center in Coldfoot (Multiagency, BLM Lead)
- Alaska Resource Library and Information Services (ARLIS) (Multi-agency, BLM full-time librarian)
- Alaska Public Lands Information Centers (Multiagency, NPS lead - Anchorage, Fairbanks, Tok, Ketchikan)
Federal Subsistence Management Program in Alaska (Alaska National Interest Conservation Act or ANILCA)
- State Director serves on Federal Subsistence Board
- Implements Federal subsistence management hunting and fishing regulations and permits
- Approximately $1.5 million annually spent on subsistence resource management, including reviews of BLM resource management plans
Oversight of Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
- Branch of Pipeline Monitoring
- 800 mile-long pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez
- 2015 total throughput was 185,582,715 barrels
For over 40 years, BLM-Alaska has overseen the largest title transfer program in the Federal government involving the transfer of over 150 million acres of Federal lands.
- 43,943,991 acres Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act conveyances (to 12/31/2015)
- 99,252,904 acres State of Alaska entitlements (to 12/31/2015)
- 19,234 parcels Individual Native Allotments, includes 1906 Native Allotments and Native Veterans Allotments (to 12/31/2015)
