BLM takes next steps to prioritize public land order selection for Alaska Native Vietnam-era Vets blm.gov - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from blm.gov Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Bureau of Land Management takes next steps to prioritize public land order selection for Alaska Native Vietnam-era Vets blm.gov - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from blm.gov Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Alaska's two U.S. senators have introduced legislation that would make another 3.7 million acres of federal land in the National Wildlife Refuge System available to Alaska Native veterans of the Vietnam War while blaming Democrats for the current paucity of suitable pickings.
Obrien Creek Tributary Fortymile River in Alaska
Source: Teri Balser/BLM
Agency Begins Tribal Consultation on Decisions to Open Additional Public Land to Selection
May 15, 2021 - WASHINGTON The Department of the Interior has announced the next steps in the implementation of the Alaska Native Vietnam-era Veterans Land Allotment Program. While the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) reviews the previous Administration’s broad Public Lands Orders (PLOs), the bureau will expedite and process veterans’ allotment applications across the area addressed by those orders.
The Department will also conduct government-to-government consultations with federally recognized Alaska Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations to kick off BLM’s efforts to reconsider and correct defects identified in the decision-making process to open these lands, including lack of consultation with affected Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations.