What is NMWTs primary concern?
This region is peppered with inholdings, most created by the Alaska Native Allotment Act of 1906. Under that act individual Alaska Natives could select as much as 160 acres of land as long as they could prove use and occupancy of that land. The 1906 act was extinguished in 1971 with the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, but not before thousands of applications had been filed. The vast majority of these applications were approved by Congress with the passage of the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. Now twenty years later, allottees are finally receiving title to their allotments, and unfortunately many are looking to sell. Unfortunately, an original 160 acre allotment can be apportioned into as many as four parcels, creating four inholdings instead of just one. There are interested buyers looking for the right location in this region to build a cottage, a lodge, a hunting or fishing camp, or in some cases develop recreational subdivisions. Potential
