Chapter 6 Summary, Quick Read For Judith Layzer
1959 Congress annexes Alaska
1960 Arctic National Wildlife Range established by Fred Seaton of the DOI
l969 Trans-Alaska Pipeline System formed by a group of oil and gas companies. They want to build a huge pipeline from south to north coast of Alaska!
1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act buys out native Alaskans of their land for gas and oil exploration, basically they can claim any land they want except land for the pipeline
1972 EIS released stressing the need for oil resources to be developed for national security interests
1973 Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act gets signed into law, opening Alaska for oil and gas exploration and the trans-Alaskan pipeline
1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act federally protects over a hundred million acres of land in northern Alaska
1986 Another EIS, but this time it is challenged by environmentalist groups because it was formed without public forum
1987 ANWR Coastal Plain Report says that there is only......
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