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Oct 21, 2026
Ashley SmithHOST
Yes.
Ashley SmithHOST
So in the early 1980s, Congress passed what's known, and the full name is the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.
Ashley SmithHOST
And people just, you know, you'll usually see it as the ANILCA.
Ashley SmithHOST
Um, they use the acronym.
Marco Siler-GonzalezHOST
The regulatory regime of get along, go along was short-lived.
Marco Siler-GonzalezHOST
In 1980, President Carter signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which set aside 100 million acres of protected lands and waters.
Marco Siler-GonzalezHOST
The hunting grounds that John's father frequented were absorbed into the umbrella of the federal government.
John GaedekeGUEST
Overnight, it was 8.3 million acres of national park were established, and he lost all that, that hunting ground.
Diane McEachernHOST
Mm-hmm.
Gloria SimeonAUDIENCE
The Monday, October 19th hearing is on the EIS, SEIS, as well as the ANILCA 810 hearing, ANILCA 810.
Gloria SimeonAUDIENCE
And just to inform people, ANILCA, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, Section 810, requires federal agencies to evaluate impacts of land use decisions on our rural subsistence uses and needs in alaska and uh part of the reason for the judge that ordered the supplemental environmental impact statement was that our access to our traditional food sources was not considered in earlier environmental impact statements, so they want to get our feedback on that because Don Lynn will definitely impact our access to healthy foods.
Gloria SimeonAUDIENCE
YKHC did a study several years ago that proved inconclusively that we are healthy as long as our food sources are healthy.
Gloria SimeonAUDIENCE
Our people do not do well GETTING WELFARE FOOD FROM THE STORE.
Sarah MontalbanoNARRATOR
In nineteen eighty, Alaska agreed to set aside ten federal parks, preserves, and monuments, spanning more than one hundred million acres of Alaska wilderness.
Sarah MontalbanoNARRATOR
In a great compromise, ANILCA guarantees that the Interior Secretary shall permit such access to the mining district for resource development.
Sarah MontalbanoNARRATOR
After initial approval by the first Trump administration in twenty twenty and the Biden administration suspending the permits and denying the right of way, the Trump administration last year cleared the project to proceed.
Sarah MontalbanoNARRATOR
The Wilderness Society called the federal government's decision a, quote, "betrayal of Alaska's overwhelming local opposition to the project." But it is not unanimous in the slightest.