Alaska · Area of Critical Environmental Concern
Bering Glacier RNA
BLM found a natural system here, and its plan calls for special management. BLM's records place 1 right of way inside the line today. It covers 824,144 acres and was designated September 7, 2007, in the East Alaska RMP. In the plan's name, RMP stands for resource management plan.
One of the 1,120 places the Bureau of Land Management has designated an Area of Critical Environmental Concern. This page shows its line, what BLM found there and what sits inside it.
The line
The rights of way
1 right of way sits inside the line.
- *UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA - FAIRBANKS1right of way
The nearest areas
- Mosquito Flats ACECAlaska · 36,837 acres · nothing placed inside236miles
- Fortymile ACECAlaska · 359,407 acres · 2 rights of way287miles
- Neacola Mountains ACECAlaska · 230,156 acres · nothing placed inside321miles
- Big Windy Hot Spring RNAAlaska · 151 acres · nothing placed inside335miles
- Mount Prindle (SNCA) RNAAlaska · 2,847 acres · nothing placed inside364miles
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Every area BLM's Alaska office holdsThe proposed rule
A proposed rule, RIN 1004-AF53, would change how BLM drafts every land use plan, and how it designates ACECs like Bering Glacier RNA. The comment window hasn't opened: the proposed rule wasn't in the Federal Register at our last check. The Watch sends one email the day it prints.
The rule's abstract
The purpose of this rulemaking is to establish in regulations an updated process for the approval of the development, revision, amendment, and maintenance of land use plans, as provided for by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Additionally, this rulemaking will provide clarification of the process the BLM uses for designating Areas of Critical Environmental Concern.Unified Agenda entry for RIN 1004-AF53, Publication ID 2026, reginfo.gov (OMB OIRA), read Oct 18, 2026