Sec. 16.20.500. Purpose.

The purpose of AS 16.20.500 – 16.20.690 is to protect and preserve habitat areas especially crucial to the perpetuation of fish and wildlife, and to restrict all other uses not compatible with that primary purpose.

Sec. 16.20.510. Regulations.

The Board of Fisheries and the Board of Game, where appropriate, shall adopt regulations they consider advisable for conservation and protection purposes governing the taking of fish and game in state fish and game critical habitat areas.

Sec. 16.20.520. Multiple land use.

Before the use, lease, or other disposal of land under private ownership or state jurisdiction and control, within state fish and game critical habitat areas created under AS 16.20.500 – 16.20.690, the person or responsible state department or agency shall notify the commissioner of fish and game. The commissioner shall acknowledge receipt of notice by […]

Sec. 16.20.530. Submission of plans and specifications.

(a) When a board determines that the following information is required, it shall instruct the commissioner, in the letter of acknowledgment required under AS 16.20.520, to require the person or governmental agency to submit: (1) full plans for the anticipated use; (2) full plans and specifications of proposed construction work; (3) complete plans and specifications […]

Sec. 16.20.550. Port Moller Critical Habitat Area established.

The following described area is established as the Port Moller Critical Habitat Area: (1) Township 50 South, Range 71 West, Seward Meridian Sections 7 – 8 Section 14 (not tide or submerged land) Sections 15 – 17 Sections 21 – 23 Section 32; (2) Township 51 South, Range 71 West, Seward Meridian Section 3 (not […]

Sec. 16.20.555. Port Heiden Critical Habitat Area established.

The following described area is established as the Port Heiden Critical Habitat Area: (1) Township 38 South, Range 59 West, Seward Meridian Sections 13 – 15 (not tide or submerged land) Section 16 Section 21 Sections 22 – 27 (not tide or submerged land) Section 28 Sections 33 – 34 Sections 35 – 36 (not […]

Sec. 16.20.560. Cinder River Critical Habitat Area established.

The following described area is established as the Cinder River Critical Habitat Area: (1) Township 32 South, Range 54 West, Seward Meridian Section 29 Sections 31 – 32; (2) Township 33 South, Range 55 West, Seward Meridian Sections 1 – 4 Sections 7 – 13 Sections 14 – 17 (not tide or submerged land) Section […]

Sec. 16.20.565. Egegik Critical Habitat Area established.

The following described area is established as the Egegik Critical Habitat Area: (1) Township 24 South, Range 51 West, Seward Meridian Sections 1 – 2 Section 11 S 1/2 Section 12 N 1/2; (2) Township 23 South, Range 51 West, Seward Meridian Section 13 Sections 24 – 25 Sections 35 – 36; (3) Township 23 […]

Sec. 16.20.570. Pilot Point Critical Habitat Area established.

The following described area is established as the Pilot Point Critical Habitat Area: (1) Township 30 South, Range 52 West, Seward Meridian (protracted) Sections 1 – 3 Section 12; (2) Township 30 South, Range 51 West, Seward Meridian (protracted) Sections 5 – 8 Section 17; (3) Township 31 South, Range 51 West, Seward Meridian (protracted) […]

Sec. 16.20.575. Kalgin Island Critical Habitat Area established.

The following described area is established as the Kalgin Island Critical Habitat Area: (1) Township 3 North, Range 15 West, Seward Meridian Section 7 NW 1/4 Section 6 SW 1/4; (2) Township 3 North, Range 16 West, Seward Meridian Section 1 Sections 11 – 12 Section 2 E 1/2; (3) Township 4 North, Range 16 […]

Sec. 16.20.580. Fox River Flats Critical Habitat Area established.

The following described area is established as the Fox River Flats Critical Habitat Area: (1) Township 4 South, Range 10 West, Seward Meridian Section 20 SE 1/4 (not tide or submerged land) Section 21 S 1/2 (not tide or submerged land) Section 22 S 1/2 Section 23 S 1/2 (not tide or submerged land) Sections […]

Sec. 16.20.585. Chilkat River Critical Habitat Area established.

The following described area is established as the Chilkat River Critical Habitat Area: The areas encompassed by a boundary beginning at a point identical with the north corners common to Sections 1 and 2, Township 29 South, Range 56 East, Copper River Meridian, Alaska; thence west a distance of 500 feet along the north boundary […]

Sec. 16.20.590. Kachemak Bay Critical Habitat Area established.

(a) The following described area is established as the Kachemak Bay Critical Habitat Area: (1) Township 4 South, Range 10 West, Seward Meridian (only tide and submerged land and waters); (2) Township 5 South, Range 10 West, Seward Meridian (only tide and submerged land and waters); (3) Township 5 South, Range 11 West, Seward Meridian […]

Sec. 16.20.595. Clam Gulch Critical Habitat Area established.

The following described area is established as the Clam Gulch Critical Habitat Area: All tide and submerged land to the minus five foot elevation, from Cape Kasilof to Happy Valley, contained in the following description: (1) Township 3 North, Range 12 West, Seward Meridian Sections 9, 16, 21, 28, 33; (2) Township 2 North, Range […]

Sec. 16.20.600. Copper River Delta Critical Habitat Area established.

The following described area is established as the Copper River Delta Critical Habitat Area: All public land, tideland, submerged land, and water contained in the following description: Beginning at a point on the south edge of the Copper River Highway right-of-way 200´ west of its intersection with the Eyak Trail trailhead; thence southwesterly 200´ west […]

Sec. 16.20.605. Anchor River and Fritz Creek Critical Habitat Area established.

(a) All state land and water contained in the following described areas is established as the Anchor River and Fritz Creek Critical Habitat Area: (1) Township 4 South, Range 13 West, Seward Meridian Section 25 Section 35 Section 36; (2) Township 5 South, Range 12 West, Seward Meridian Sections 17 – 20; (3) Township 5 […]

Sec. 16.20.610. Dude Creek Critical Habitat Area.

(a) The purpose of the Dude Creek Critical Habitat Area is the protection and enhancement of the wet meadow habitat that is the key roosting area for migrating lesser sandhill cranes, for the protection of lesser sandhill cranes, and for the continued public use and enjoyment of the area. (b) The following described area is […]

Sec. 16.20.615. Tugidak Island Critical Habitat Area.

(a) The state land above the mean high tide line within the following described area is established as the Tugidak Island Critical Habitat Area: (1) Township 41 South, Ranges 33 – 34 West, Seward Meridian; (2) Township 42 South, Range 33 West, Seward Meridian Sections 1 – 11 Sections 14 – 23 Sections 25 – […]

Sec. 16.20.620. Willow Mountain Critical Habitat Area established.

(a) The following described area is established as the Willow Mountain Critical Habitat Area: (1) Township 20 North, Range 2 West, Seward Meridian Section 7 Sections 18 – 19; (2) Township 20 North, Range 3 West, Seward Meridian Sections 1 – 2 Sections 11 – 14 Sections 23 – 24; (3) Township 21 North, Range […]

Sec. 16.20.625. Redoubt Bay Critical Habitat Area.

(a) The state-owned land and water above mean lower low water contained in the following described parcels is designated as the Redoubt Bay Critical Habitat Area: (1) Township 6 North, Range 16 West, Seward Meridian Sections 1 – 12: North of the south bank of Drift River Sections 14 – 18: North of the south […]