”Alaskans have been completely railroaded as the BLM goes back on their own recommendation and commitment to return Alaska’s lands to federal multiple-use status,” Plesha said. Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola’s office did not respond to a request for comment. One of Peltola’s challengers in the upcoming election, Republican Nick Begich III, criticized her on social media over the decision and said that “Alaska must fight back with every tool it has available to restore access to this land.” The protected lands are spread across Alaska. They’re about the size of Pennsylvania, collectively. In Western Alaska, they’re in the western Interior, Seward Peninsula and Bristol Bay regions. They’re also located in Southcentral Alaska and in eastern Alaska. According to the Bureau of Land Management, the agency received 15,000 public comments for the draft review, overwhelmingly favoring the protections. The environmental review claims that revoking any of the protections could harm subsistence hunting and fishing in dozens of Alaska Native communities that would lose federal subsistence priority over certain lands, the agency said. This was first published in the Anchorage Daily News
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