AK North Slope News to Know

[Larry Bartlett]

Imaging the future of Alaska in 20 years and it makes me sad for hunter/explorers who value the wild places once viewed as untouchable public lands. Caribou hunting is a rapidly shrinking opportunity. There is a shift toward dissolution of public lands, effecting a systematic process that is impossible to fight.

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Approves Ambler Road Project to Unlock Alaska’s Mineral Potential

UNLEASHING ALASKA’S EXTRAORDINARY RESOURCE POTENTIAL: Today, President Donald J. Trump approved the appeal of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export

www.whitehouse.gov

https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...ublic-land-order-nos-5150-and-5180-as-amended

Interior Begins Process to Streamline Permitting in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska | U.S. Department of the Interior

Today, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced the start of a new effort to streamline permitting for oil and gas infrastructure in the approximately 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The effort comes in response to a petition for rulemaking from the Alaska Oil and...

www.doi.gov

https://alaskabeacon.com/2026/05/14/a-huge-data-center-could-rise-on-alaskas-north-slope/

Alaska wins state’s rights dispute over submerged navigable lands

The United States issued a Quiet Title Act Disclaimer and asked U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason to confirm what the State of Alaska has argued for the last seven years: The North Fork of the Fortymile River is navigable and the submerged lands between its high-water marks are owned by...

alaskawatchman.com

If you're thinking of hunting the Brooks Range, you might need to light the fire soon.

LB

 

[akhunter3]

This is a very doom and gloom post- drilling in ANWR if/when it happens will look a lot like what we see now on the Dalton- LOTS of wilderness with a barely maintained road and a few buildings.

Is this a trend in the wrong direction? Possibly, perhaps even probably.

Do you need to go hunt the Brooks "NOW" before it turns into downtown NYC? Absolutely not.