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Arctic Action Yukon Flats Land Trade EIS public comment Re-opens
Thanks to many requests from tribes, Tanana Chiefs Council, conservation organizations and the public, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is taking public comments for another 30-days on the controversial Yukon Flats Land Trade draft Environmental Impact Statement. The land trade would remove lands from the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge to facilitate oil and gas development and there could be a road and pipeline corridor along Beaver Creek Wild River and through the White Mountains. Please comment by May 19 at the web form: http://yukonflatseis.ensr.com/Yukon_Flats/Comments.aspx
Apr 18, 2008, 09:36
Arctic Action
Yukon Flats Land Swap Public Hearing TUESDAY MARCH 4!
WANT TO SEE A ROAD and OIL PIPELINE THROUGH WHITE MOUNTAINS NRA?
PUBLIC HEARING held by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Tuesday, March 4 (Open House 3pm, Q & A 4pm, Hearing 5pm)
Z.J. Loussac Library Public Conference Room, 3600 Denali St, Anchorage)
If you enjoy the White Mountains and Yukon Flats Refuge the way they are, this will be the only public hearing testimony taken in Anchorage on this issue. Attend the meeting to tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to drop the land swap that would facilitate oil and gas development in Yukon Flats Refuge and road and pipeline corridor through the White Mountains. Alaskans value the wild country stretching north from Fairbanks, the White Mountains, Beaver Creek, and the Yukon Flats Refuge. Fish and Wildlife's analysis in the EIS assumes a spill at Beaver Creek would be boomed and not get into the Yukon River. Do you trust the oil companies with the precious Pacific salmon of the Yukon River?
To oppose the land trade, select the "No Action" Alt. 3.
For Talking Points Click Here:
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Feb 20, 2008, 19:08
Arctic Action
White Mountains and Beaver Creek Wild River threatened by Road, Pipeline
Proposed Yukon Flats Refuge Land Trade and resulting oil and gas development plans are inconsistent with White Mountains National Recreation Area Management Plan and Beaver Creek Wild River Management Plan.
Click here for detailed fact sheet:
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Feb 20, 2008, 18:19
Arctic Action
Yukon Flats Land Trade Map
Map shows Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge land swap areas and proposed road and pipeline routes along Beaver Creek National Wild River, White Mountains National Recreation, and proposed Crazy-Mountains Wilderness Area.
Please submit comments by March 25 to:
Yukon Flats EIS Project Office c/o ENSR,
1835 South Bragaw Street, Suite 490, Anchorage, AK 99508
Public Comment Form:
http://yukonflatseis.ensr.com/yukon_flats/Comments.aspx
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Jan 22, 2008, 15:26
Arctic Action
Conservation, Native groups opposed proposed land swap for oil development in Yukon Flats Refuge in Alaska
Groups Blast USFWS for Failing to Protect Wildlife and Alaska Native Culture -- A coalition of Alaska native and conservation groups, joined by a retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist, denounced a proposed land swap that would remove 110,000 acres of critical and irreplaceable wildlife habitat and wilderness from the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to allow oil and gas development on the land. The coalition responded to a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) posted today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Click on full press release, below
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Jan 22, 2008, 15:22
