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...even today, Alaska's scenic grandeur almost defies description. Larger than Texas, Montana and California combined, the 49th state possesses more coastline than the rest of the nation. It boasts North America's tallest mountain, the nation's third longest river and, in addition to Alaskan brown bears, the world's largest land carnivores, a glacier the size of Rhode Island. Purchased from Russia in 1867 for a paltry $7.2 million, Alaska also contains some of the country's richest and most extensive mineral deposits. As a result, it has become the center...
...Statehood Act allowed the state to select 41.6 million hectares (104 million acres) of Alaska's 150 million hectares (375 million acres) -an area the size of New England, New York and Pennsylvania-for economic development, but it ignored the claims of an estimated 77,000 native Alaskan Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians. The 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act resolved this problem by awarding the natives $962 million in cash and some 17.6 million hectares (44 million acres) of their own. The act further directed the Interior Department to designate up to 32 million hectares (80 million acres...
...Interior Department acted promptly. In 1973, Secretary Rogers Morton recommended that Congress permanently protect 28 areas totaling almost 33.6 million hectares (84 million acres). For three years, legislation languished. But now, with these Alaskan lands scheduled to be turned over to the Bureau of Land Management and opened for "multiple use," meaning development, in 1978, Congress is beginning to move. Representative Morris Udall of Arizona has offered legislation that would add more than 12 million hectares (30 million acres) to the original Interior Department package. His bill, H.R. 39, would more than double the size of the country...
catch a crab: (King, Alaskan King, legs of) An oarsman catches a crab when his oar hits water on the recovery, knocking the handle back into his body. At times, the shock can be violent enough to throw an oarsman from the boat in which case he may get "sharked" (sharking is usually fatal to the race...
...always, delivered in soft Southern tones, they were blunt and stark. If the world's use of oil continues at present rates, he predicted, demand will exceed international production by the early 1980s. Just to stay even would require "the production of a new Texas every year, an Alaskan North Slope every nine months or a new Saudi Arabia every three years...