BLM closes NPR-A for tundra travel - May 24, 2020

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryMay 2020

Vol. 25, No.20

Week of May 24, 2020

BLM closes NPR-A for tundra travel

Petroleum News

The federal Bureau of Land Management’s Arctic District Office closed the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska for winter overland tundra travel effective 12:01 a.m. May 15.

BLM said snow and weather conditions in NPR-A “are no longer adequate for winter overland tundra travel.”

The BLM action ends authorized North Slope winter overland tundra travel, as the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land and Water, had already closed the eastern and western North Slope coastal tundra areas to all off-road and ice road activities. The state closure was effective May 8, with a requirement that off-road travel in progress be completed by May 11.

The state never opened the upper and lower Foothills areas.

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