His expansion of the national park system included protection of 103 million acres of Alaskan lands.

Mr. Bush is pushing to drill in many Alaskan lands that had been protected by past Republican presidents.

Today, more than half of Alaskan land is owned by the Federal Government.

In the 1940s writer and researcher Olaus Murie proposed that Alaskan lands be preserved.

Unfortunately, these images obscure some of the most important qualities of the Alaskan lands that the Bush administration seeks to develop.

The tideflats were steadily filled in, placing the rails south of Downtown-and the route of the southern portion of today's Alaskan Way-on dry land.

They enable states and local governments to maintain access to state, Native Alaskan and private lands.

Rather than creating reservations, the government divided Alaskan lands into corporations, each of which owns a segment of land on which tribal members reside.

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed a bill that made Alaskan land a refuge of 19 million acres, an area the size of North Carolina.

President Reagan moved to open more Alaskan land to oil development.