Read why we supported a recent emergency petition for wolf buffers, information on small hydro in the Denali Borough, the Community debate on coal, and updated news on the Stampede State SRA proposal.…
NPS photo DCC just faxed comments urging the Alaska Board of Game to establish a "no take" area on state lands bordering the national park. The petition making this request was recently filed with the…
The eight-member DCC Board voted unanimously at its February 2nd teleconference to support an Emergency Petition to establish a “no wolf take” area on state lands adjacent to Denali National Park, sim…
Area of SRA as in the Version B resolution. DB Assembly to consider boundary changes to proposed Stampede SRA at its February 11th meeting The Borough Assembly will be voting on whether to approve one…
Although dubbed a Work Session and not open for oral public testimony, this one-day meeting in Juneau will address important topics, including whether the Board will move away from a two year cycle of…
A federal regulation that would ban certain predator-hunting practices in the National Preserves just completed a 90 day comment period. We recently heard that more than 45,000 comments and 28,000 pet…
During a recent scoping period for a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline (ASAP), we submitted comments to the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency developing …
Map from ASAP EIS shows route of ASAP pipeline between Healy and Carlo Creek. Click on map for larger version. On August 1, 2014 the US Army Corps of Engineers announced a public comment period for th…
NPS-Alaska Sets Hearings for Sport Hunting Proposals The National Park Service will hold 17 public hearings this fall on proposed regulations and environmental assessment related to sport hunting in A…
On September 4, 2014, the National Park Service released a long-awaited regulation prohibiting certain methods of hunting on National Park Preserve Lands. This regulation is a response…
In 2011, Usibelli Coal Mine, Inc. received a license to explore for gas on more than 200,000 acres, completely surrounding the town of Healy and local subdivisions. Although we at DCC questioned the s…
As our readers know, DCC has been actively concerned about proposals for gas line development in the Denali Borough from two different projects, the Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline Project and the Alaska …
