Alaska will sue Interior Secretary Deb Haland in order to obtain 10 trail corridors within Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.
The National Park Service manages the preserve west of the Canadian border. It includes the Charley River Basin and a small part of the Yukon River.
Attorney General Treg Taylor issued a notice of intent and to sue for 10 ribbons of land measuring approximately 500 miles. It is part of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s unlocking Alaska initiative to protect state land rights.
This claim is based upon a federal 1866 law called RS2477. This law was created to allow roads to be built on federal land that is not yet used. The law was repealed in 1976. However, there is an exception for trails already established.
Federal regulations permit the Interior secretary RS2477 rights to way. This basically means that the federal government does not have any property interest in a trail.
All trails that the state plans to sue for go across federal land. Some of them are located near Eagle.
