Feds want to develop long-term plan for entire North Slope that would allow for adaptive management

BLM, USGS proposing science strategy to look at all of slope; plan would be based on long-term science plan, include state, local agencies, public

Kristen Nelson

PNA Editor-in-Chief

The Bureau of Land Management has been monitoring industry exploration activity in the northeastern National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. When planning work began for a proposed lease sale in the northwest NPR-A last summer, the agency and others began to talk about how they could look at the whole Nor....

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