Legal Opinion
Wilderness Society, a Non-Profit Corporation v. J. Steven Griles, Assistant Secretary, Department of Interior
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 14, 1987No. 86-5205PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge WALD.
WALD, Chief Judge:
Our largest state, estimated at between 357,000,000 and 375,000,000 acres, Alaska remains, to this day, an area with undetermined and shifting land ownership. The Alaska Statehood Act, passed in 1953, authorized the new state to select over 100,-000,000 acres of federal land from desig nated areas during a period of thirty-five years. Outstanding land claims by Alaskan native groups further complicated the uncertainty of land ownership in the state. In 1971, Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, extinguishing…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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3Cited by120 opinions
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