Recent Actions
AQRC comments on public land use plans, decisions and conflicts in Alaska which affect our core values, such as quiet recreational opportunities, natural sounds and natural quiet. We review actions taken by the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and other political entities.
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
While AQRC is pleased that the plan does not fundamentally revise the areas open or closed to motorized recreation, we are critical about how the goals and objectives are stated, the lack of data and analysis in the plan and the lack of specific priorities. On a more specific basis, we find many of the actions proposed to be allowed in the wilderness area, to be inappropriate for that area.
Support of bans Prohibiting Personal Watercraft in Kachemak Bayy
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
AQRC continues to support the bans prohibiting personal watercraft use in Kachemak Bay State Park and State Wilderness Park and the Kachemak Bay and Fox River Flats Critical Habitat Areas on the grounds that such use is incompatible with the resource values for which these lands and waters were set aside.
Comments on Proposed Kennecott Operations Plan
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Our focus is narrow and centers on the Access/Transportation section of the proposed plan. We urge NPS to take seriously the responsibility to protect the Natural Soundscape and, while recognizing that ORVs play a role in transportation and subsistence, believe no recreational use of ORVs should be allowed in the Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark.
Road to Umiat
Monday, July 25th, 2011
AQRC objects to this proposed road on the grounds that it will result in an increase of recreational motorized vehicles to a part of Alaska now lightly traveled to the detriment of locals’ subsistence resources and harm to wildlife, soils,natural soundscape, vegetation, clear air and water, wildlands and scenic beauty.
Yellowstone National Park Winter Use DEIS
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
AQRC recommends that the Park phase out snowmachine use so that it fulfill its stewardship responsibilities to the public. We believe that the mitigation measures, while helpful, do not adequately protect the park resources, especially the natural soundscape, from the harm caused by snowmachines. We object to the Park allowing more snowmachiners to enter the Park than actual use has demonstrated.
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