Category: Land Use/Planning
One of a series of short booklets on ANCSA. Weeden discusses the interest groups which affect land use planning, framing land use issues within the contexts of "competition and change." He lists five primary community land categories: 1. Land for building; 2. Land for resource exploitation; 3. Land for open space recreation; 4. Lands for beauty and historic settings; and 5. Land for revenue. Weeden also discusses problems specific to the Alaskan environment including limited plant and animal life, permafrost, water supply, erosion and flooding, waste disposal and air pollution. He states that ANCSA provides the opportunity for village land planning but does not specify "...how the planning is to be done." Villages and regions "...are faced with a frightening number of planning groups with some authority over them" including organized boroughs, incorporated cities, and federal agencies. Selected terms are defined, and group discussion questions are provided. Other booklets in the series: Stock, Corporations, and the Native Land Claims Settlement; Environmental Issues in the Land Claims; New Tribes for New Times; The Politics of Passage; Politics and Alaska Natives; Village Alaska; and Future Land Use Planning Alternatives for Alaska.

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