Source: https://eplanning.blm.gov/public_projects/2018002/200532117/20069145/250075327/D1_Withdrawal_EIS_ROF_11x17.pdf

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is looking for public comment on its assessment of the environmental impact of a plan that could free up federal land for development in the Haines Borough. 

That land is part of 28 million acres across Alaska that were set aside under the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act but have not yet been turned over to Native corporations, the state or given formal protection by the…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...