NPR-A tundra overland travel closes - May 12, 2019

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryMay 2019

Vol. 24, No.19

Week of May 12, 2019

NPR-A tundra overland travel closes

Petroleum News

The Bureau of Land Management’s Arctic District Office said winter overland tundra travel for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska closed effective 12:01 a.m., May 3.

The agency said snow and weather conditions in the NPR-A were no longer adequate for winter overland tundra travel.

The state closed the eastern and western coastal areas of state land on the North Slope for off-road tundra travel April 30, and said snow pack deterioration was widespread in coastal areas with large swaths of visible vegetation.

The state’s other two tundra travel areas, the lower and upper foothills, never opened for off-road travel this year.

- Petroleum News

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