ANILCA and Related Web Sites

The year 2000 marked the 20^th anniversary of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA). The following list of web sites examines ANILCA from a variety of perspectives. This list is by no means all-inclusive and only touches on issues such as subsistence; the researcher is encouraged to follow additional links contained in these web sites and use web search engines for further information.

LAW AND LEGISLATION

• Created by Robert H. Hume, Jr. of Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Resource Center provides links to fulltext laws, regulations, administrative actions and orders, legal cases and other publications pertaining to ANCSA. The section on ANILCA is currently under construction. This site also includes links to Native regional, village and urban corporations.
  
  
• The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University offers searchable access to the United States Code, including the Table of Popular Names. The full text of ANILCA is available at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/16/ch51.text.html
  

• The web site of the U. S. Department of Interior Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs contains statements pertaining to ANILCA made before the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee by Marilyn Heiman, Special Assistant to the Secretary for Alaska Department of Interior, http://www.doi.gov/ocl/anilca.htm and Don Barry, U.S. Department of Interior Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks, http://www.doi.gov/ocl/s1 83.htm.
  
  
• The web site of the Alaska Region Office of Subsistence Management in Region 7 of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contains the full text of ANILCA http://www.r7.fws.gov/asm/anilca/toc.html and an introduction that describes the issues leading up to the signing of this act at http://www.r7.fws.gov/asm/anilca/intro.html
  
  
• The University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center Web Site contains a section called "Alaska Natives / Indians: Index to Resources." In this section, scroll down to "Native Lands" and "Subsistence" for numerous links on ANCSA and ANILCA, respectively. Included are links to the full texts of the acts, regulations and related legal cases.
  
  

• The Alaska Native Curriculum and Teacher Development Program provides a journal article written by Steven McNabb, titled "Native Claims in Alaska: A Twenty-Year Review," which covers ANCSA and ANILCA at http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/mcnabb/s_mcnabb.htm
  
  
• The First Nations Development Institute offers a discussion of ANILCA and subsistence issues from the Native perspective at http://www.firstnations.org/publications/ig_subsistence.htm
  
  
• The web site of the Resource Development Council of Alaska contains issue papers on ANILCA and ANCSA.
  
  
• Safari Club International describes the background and current status of Alaska subsistence hunting litigation challenging the process by which "customary and traditional use" determinations are made under ANILCA http://www.scifirstforhunters.org/articles/index.cfm?action=view&article_ID=445
  
  

• At the Alaska Department of Fish and Game contains information on ANILCA native allotments and ANCSA land conveyances.
  
  
• The National Parks Conservation Association web site contains a fact sheet and brief history of ANILCA at http://www.npca.org/media_center/fact_sheets/anilca.html.
  
  
• The U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management web site contains the Alaska Mineral Assessment Program page. The purpose of the program is to assess the mineral potential of public lands in Alaska as specified in Section 1010 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, PL 96-487.
  
  

• The Jimmy Carter Library web site provides access to presidential documents in digital format that led up to the enactment of ANILCA. These are searchable through the National Archives ARC Basic Search at http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/arc_home.jsp. Click on "Basic Materials Search." Check the "Descriptions of Archival Materials linked to digital copies" box, limit the search to the Jimmy Carter Library, and search "Alaska lands."
  
  

• The Institute of the North offers an ANILCA seminar described at http://www.institutenorth.org/servlet/content/anilca.html. The curriculum is designed to educate all stakeholders about the law in order to ensure that it is implemented correctly and fairly.