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“National Parks of Alaska - Testimony Before U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform” - By Rick Kenyon of Glennallen, Alaska (presented at the August 14, 2006 Hearing - Committee on Government Reform, Anchorage, Alaska) For three decades, the National Park Service has run amok, mistreating inholders within the Alaskan National Parks: — forcing almost all the historic placer miners to give up their claims, contrary to ANILCA, denying property owners access to their homes, causing them to lose their property, punishing them for their wilderness way of life, and dragging them into federal court on trumped-up charges. The Service provides its own employees exclusive, luxurious wilderness accommodations. See Also Essential Books & Publications “The Alaska Miner” Journal of the Alaskan Miners Association Carolyn Stevens, Editor Reliable source of important information related to mining and private property rights, especially Congressional and Alaskan issues. E-mail: amajournal@gci.net Additional Helpful Organizations Alaska Miners Association Steve Borell, Executive Director address Websites Alaskan Miners Association www.alaskaminers.org Alaska State Legislature link Governor of Alaska link

State News “A Social License to Operate in Alaska” - Edited by Kelley Hegarty, M.C.P., Kelley Hegarty & Associates, LLC, Alaska Community & Regional Planning Consultants, Posted by permission of the Alaska Miners Association from the 2008 Alaska Miners Association Handbook and Service Directory. “No matter how compelling the mineralization, no exploration company will be granted the permits needed to move into the development phase of a large mine project in Alaska without first having earned their social license to operate by neighboring communities.” The lessons in this treatise, which grew from international experience, are applicable not solely to mining, but also to commercial and industrial developments in rural, and even urban, communities. Learning the landownership patterns, listening conscientiously to local concerns, and achieving balance are some of the important aspects of the social license to operate. More on this topic: Mining — National “The Yukon Cleansing” - Book Review: A Land Gone Lonesome, By Dan O’Neill, Counterpoint, a Member of Perseus Books Group, 2006 Review by Susan Allen, Reprinted from the New York Property Rights Clearinghouse (Vol. 11, No. 3, Summer 2007, PRFA) After the ANILCA settlement divided Alaska’s wild country among native, state and federal holdings, the National Park Service controlled vast federal landholdings. The Park Service told the people living on the wild lands that they could go on with their accustomed “subsistence lifestyle” as hunters, trappers, placer miners, and the like, but the agency cut off access and instituted regulations and an insurmountable permit application process, which made it impossible for the people to live in the wilds anymore. Old cabins were burned, only to be rebuilt by the Park Service as historic reconstructions. More on this topic: National Park Service “Testimony Before the United States Senate, Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management of the Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, May 26, 1999, S. 510, the American Land Sovereignty Protection Act, By Steven C. Borell, P.E., Alaska Miners Association, Inc.” More on this topic: Biosphere Reserves & World Heritage Sites “Hydroelectric Dams Subject to FERC Relicensing—1998-2010” - from Positions on Property, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Property Rights Foundation of America, Nov. 1998) (Jump to Alaska information) More on this topic: Dam Relicensing under FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) “Existing and Tentative U.N. World Heritage Sites in the United States”-reprinted from Positions on Property, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Nov. 1998) (Jump to Alaska information) More on this topic: Biosphere Reserves & World Heritage Sites “The Alaskan Betrayal - How the National Park Service Broke the Promises that were made to sell the Alaskan National Park System to Congress” - By Carol W. LaGrasse, reprinted from Positions on Property, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Property Rights Foundation of America, Oct. 1994) The National Park Service systematically negated the compromises under ANILCA, the broad-reaching Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, that allowed the 6-1/2 million acre Denali National Park and Reserve. The Park Service destroyed mining businesses in Denali National Park and the other new national parks in Alaska, yet delayed compensation or simply never compensated the businesses. More on this topic: National Park Service

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