Chugach Land Management Plan

Chugach Mountain Range

Background

Read the Chugach Land Management Plan.

The Chugach Land Management Plan is revised every 10 - 15 years. The 2002 revised plan was appealed by ACE and over 350 interested parties. The main points of contention with the Plan are as follows:

The current Plan

• Recommends less wilderness protection than the Reagan administration recommended for the forest in 1984.
• Provides no wilderness protection for biologically rich areas of the Chugach, such as the Copper River Delta, an area with some of the most important shorebird habitat in the Western Hemisphere and the world-famous Copper River salmon run.
• The plan ignored marine-based resources, activities, and impacts in Prince William Sound
• Opened 87% of the forest to snow machines
• Permitted the fragmentation of essential brown bear habitat on the Kenai Peninsula.  

ACE continues to work with the Forest Service to protect key areas of the Chugach National Forest.