26-08-2016 21:19 via alaskapublic.org

Report catalogs contaminated land conveyed to Native corporations

The BLM put together an inventory of 920 contaminated sites conveyed to Alaska Native Corporations, color-coded to indicate sites that have already been cleaned up, and those with work still to be done. (Web screenshot)Scattered throughout Alaska are hundreds of pieces of land that have been transferred to Alaska Native Corporations by the federal government.
Some of it is the land of Alaska dreams: forests, tundra, river banks – largely untouched. Other parcels are less picturesque,
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