Alaska · Area of Critical Environmental Concern
Galbraith Lake ACEC
BLM found a natural system, a wildlife resource, a cultural value and a historic value here, and its plan calls for special management. BLM's records place 17 rights of way inside the line today. It covers 53,949 acres and was designated January 1, 1991, in the Utility Corridor.
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
17 rights of way sit inside the line. BLM files 8 under oil & gas facilities, 8 under non-energy facilities and 1 under none.
- Harvest Alaska, LLC8rights of way
- AK DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION & PUBLIC FACILITIES2rights of way
- CENTRAL YUKON FIELD OFFICE2rights of way
- US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE1right of way
- STATE OF ALASKA DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC FACILITIES NORTH REG1right of way
- Central Yukon Field Office1right of way
- ARCTIC SLOPE TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION CO OP1right of way
- Mass Excavation1right of way
The nearest areas
- Toolik Lake RNAAlaska · 78,027 acres · 30 rights of way8miles
- West Fork Atigun River ACECAlaska · 8,532 acres · nothing placed inside15miles
- Poss Mountain ACECAlaska · 8,732 acres · at least 3 active mining claims69miles
- Jim River ACECAlaska · 202,703 acres · at least 30 active mining claims, 1 right of way111miles
- Kanuti Hot Springs ACECAlaska · 43 acres · nothing placed inside150miles
More from BLM's Alaska office
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 Galbraith Lake ACEC. 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