Chalkyitsik, Fort Yukon tribes celebrate historic land-use plan

As one tribal leader put it: The land is our culture and our culture is the land.
That’s why two interior Alaska tribes in Chalkyitsik and Fort Yukon celebrated historic land-use agreements with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that were more than eight years in the making.
The BLM land-use plan covers about 6.5 million acres in the Fortymile area, the Steese National Conservation Area and the White Mountains National Recreation Area, as well as the Draanjik watershed.
The BLM used a ne