The year 2020 was the 40th anniversary of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA). The web sites listed below examine ANILCA from a variety of perspectives. This list is not comprehensive and only touches on issues such as subsistence. The researcher is encouraged to follow additional links contained in these websites and use web search engines for further information.

The U.S. Department of Interior Federal Subsistence Management Program provides the following resources on ANILCA:

• History
• Record of Decision (1992)
• Environmental Assessment (1997)
• Regional Advisory Council Meeting Schedule
• Events
• Meeting News
• Laws & Regulations
• Fish/Shellfish Regulations
• Wildlife Regulations
• Permits
• Regulatory Process
• Current Proposals
• Request for Reconsideration
• Monitoring Programs
• Fisheries Resource Monitoring
• Partners for Fisheries Monitoring
• Meeting Materials
• Meeting Transcripts
• Maps
• Fisheries Reports
• Other Subsistence Programs
• Tribal Consultation

The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University offers searchable access to the United States Code, including the Table of Popular Names. The full text of ANILCA is available at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/16/ch51.text.html

OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS

The Alaska Native Curriculum and Teacher Development Program provides a journal article written by Steven McNabb, titled “Native Claims in Alaska: A Twenty-Year Review,” which covers ANCSA and ANILCA at www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/mcnabb/s_mcnabb.htm

LitSite Alaska features excerpts of interviews and event transcripts of participants reflecting upon the 30 years since the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES

The Alaska Department of Fish and Gamewebsite contains information on ANILCA native allotments and ANCSA land conveyances.

The National Parks Conservation Association web site contains written testimony by Joan Frankevich for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on December 3, 2015testimony on ANILCA at https://www.npca.org/articles/901-testimony-alaska-national-interest-lands-conservation-act.

HISTORICAL MATERIALS

The Jimmy Carter Library web site provides access to presidential documents in digital format that led up to the enactment of ANILCA. These are searchable through the National Archives ARC Basic Search at www.archives.gov/research/arc/index.html. Click on “Basic Materials Search.” Check the “Descriptions of Archival Materials linked to digital copies” box, limit the search to the Jimmy Carter Library, and search “Alaska lands.”

ANILCA TRAINING

The Institute of the North offers an ANILCA seminar described at www.institutenorth.org/programs/alaska-commons/anilca-seminars/. The curriculum isdesigned to educate all stakeholders about the law in order to ensure that it is implemented correctly and fairly.