...an economic engine. "The Chugach provides habitat for fish, it provides opportunity for special use permits, minerals, mining ? snowmobiling, skiing, recreation, fishing, hunting, subsistence, all of it," Rees said. The Forest Service...

...640 acres. The grandfather clause in the initiatives state: "does not apply to existing large scale metallic-mineral mining operations that have received all federal, state and local permits." Also touted in this editorial is the amount...

...management standards and regulatory prescriptions" to ensure against adverse impacts from new, large-scale metallic mineral mining operations. The measure would bar the state from issuing permits to large-scale mining operations that allowed...

...Read for yourself: "Section 3. Scope. Section 2 of this Act does not apply to existing large scale metallic mineral mining operations that have received all required federal, state and local permits, authorizations, licenses and approvals...