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NATIONAL
PARK SERVICE WAR IN THE WRANGELLS |
KCHU Valdez - Glennallen - McCarthy - Coffee Break program
(10/15/03)
Interview
with Park Superintendent Gary Candelaria
Meg McKinney - host
0:00 - Begin interview
3:00 - Candelaria expounding on "the access permitting process" ; "It's not a simple process - we didn't create the process"
4:00 - Policy Handbook talks about how to get access
12:00 - Candelaria said the Park Service doesn't need to buy all the land in the park; he says they can "work with owners to develop lands compatible" to the park. Owners are at liberty to do what they want provided they don't impact the public lands surrounding them. Park Service interference with what is done on private land is of course not provided for in ANILCA but it sounds like they plan on claiming that the slightest impact, perhaps they are planning to claim visual impact on surrounding park lands is enough to impose extreme environmental regulation and land use controls. We are bound to the Federal Acquisition and Real Estate Acquisition Regulations.
15:44 - ANILCA ACCESS - If someone does not use their access, do they lose it? Candelaria and Sharp are essentially claiming that no one had access to isolated homesites, homesteads, and patented mining claims before the parks were created (and consequently after the parks were created) unless they were already touching a state highway!! This neutralizes ANILCA 1109. The lesson alluded to here also is that the Park Service has set up a regime where if you don't use your access they think they can take it from you by crushing you with permit requirements for brush removal or other minor inconsequential maintenance.
23:00 - Did Green Butte Mine have access the day before ANILCA? NPS: Don't know! NPS spent $250,000 out there this summer in McCarthy Creek and you don't know?
29:22 - PILGRIM AIRLIFT - Report by Laurie Rowland ; excellent summary of plight the NPS road blockage has created for the family and efforts to bring in the critical supplies.
38:50 - END
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