BLM Temporarily Closes Sourdough Campground Amid Bridge Safety Concerns
GLENNALLEN, Alaska – The Bureau of Land Management’s Glennallen Field Office is temporarily closing the Sourdough Creek Campground because supports of the bridge at the entrance to the campground are being threatened by rising creek waters.
The campground is located at Mile Post 147.5 of the Richardson Highway and the Sourdough Creek runs along the site. The campground will be closed until the stream subsides and the bridge’s structural integrity can be evaluated.
“It s a weekend, the snow has melted and we ve already been receiving calls to ask if our campgrounds are open this season,” said Marnie Graham, Glennallen Field Office Manager. “We want to make absolutely sure the campground is safe for visitors.”
BLM Alaska Seeks Comment on Alphabet Hills Prescribed Burn
GLENNALLEN, Alaska – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments on the Environmental Analysis (EA) for an Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) proposal to burn about 53,000 acres of wildlands in the Alphabet Hills near the West Fork, Gulkana and Susitna Rivers to improve wildlife habitat.
ADF&G has requested use of the BLM-administered Gulkana National Wild and Scenic River as a natural boundary for the prescribed fire planned to be burned in a mosaic pattern to improve wildlife habitat.
Comments will be accepted through May 31 for the project, which is expected to begin this summer and may continue for several summers.
Bureau of Land Management extends scoping period on proposal to amend East Alaska Resource Management Plan
GLENNALLEN, Alaska – The BLM is seeking input to prepare an Environmental Assessment for a proposed amendment to the East Alaska Resource Management Plan (RMP) and is extending the public scoping period to Jan. 4, 2021 due to the holidays.
An amendment to the East Alaska RMP is needed for the BLM to fulfill provisions of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act (Dingell Act). The Dingell Act requires BLM to identify “accessible and economically viable Federal land” within the Chugach Region that can be offered in a potential land exchange. The amendment to the RMP would analyze the environmental impacts of potentially making lands near Thompson Pass in the vicinity of Valdez, Alaska, available for exchange.