{"id":572,"date":"2010-04-13T14:30:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=572"},"modified":"2011-03-29T21:00:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T05:00:36","slug":"wrangell-lands-bill-passes-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Wrangell Lands Bill Passes Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legislature passed the Wrangell land grant bill today.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.ak.us\/basis\/get_bill.asp?bill=HB%20273&amp;session=26\" target=\"_blank\">House Bill 273<\/a> completes the formation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrangell.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wrangell<\/a> and Haines boroughs.\u00a0 Alaska\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/ltgov.alaska.gov\/treadwell\/services\/alaska-constitution.html\" target=\"_blank\">Constitution<\/a> and state law stipulate the formation of <a href=\"http:\/\/ltgov.alaska.gov\/services\/constitution.php?section=10\" target=\"_blank\">boroughs<\/a> for local governance.\u00a0 After a borough is organized, the state has a policy of aiding the newly formed borough with a land grant.\u00a0 Southeast Alaska presents a unique challenge to this policy because there is very little state land in the region.\u00a0 98% of land within the Wrangell Borough is part of the Tongass National Forest. This left the community with one the smallest borough land grants on record.\u00a0 The bill corrects this shortfall and gives the boroughs an equitable land grant.\u00a0 I\u2019m pleased the legislature enacted this bill and hope it will further community development in Southeast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legislature passed the Wrangell land grant bill today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,26],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bert-stedman","tag-wrangell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}