This Day in Alaska History-May 21st, 1915
Congressional Delegation Introduce Chugach Alaska Land Exchange and Oil Spill Recovery Act
Implements Regional Land Study, Helps Realize Benefits Promised Under ANCSA Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-AK) and U.S. Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-AK) introduced the Chugach Alaska Land Exchange and Oil Spill Recovery Act to direct a land exchange between the federal government and Chugach Alaska Corporation (Chugach). This exchange would resolve […]
This Day in Alaska History-July 23rd, 1907
The Chugach National Forest, second largest in Alaska, was penned into being on July 23, 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt. Originally 23 million acres, it has shrank in size through the years, but, the temperate rain forest still spans the Chugach mountain range surrounding Prince William Sound to the eastern Kenai Peninsula and also includes […]
Two Men Indicted for Dumping Oily Substance in Chugach National Forest
ANCHORAGE – A federal grand jury in Anchorage returned an indictment charging two men from Seward, Alaska, with disposing of fifteen 55-gallon drums of an oily substance at the Granite Creek Recreation Area in the Chugach National Forest and causing the contents to leak. According to court documents, James Withrow, 56, and Bruce Jackson, aka […]