Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Mining, Land and Water

adopted January 7, 2000

• Kenai Area Plan (PDF) - in one PDF file (30 MB). If the large file (above) is too large for your computer's resources, the Kenai Area Plan is divided into smaller sections (below) for your convenience.
• Map of the Planning Area (PDF) 
• Region and Map Locator (PDF)
• Table of Contents (PDF)
• Plan Adoption Signatures (PDF)
• Errata for Kenai Area Plan - (PDF) (revised 6/10/04)

Chapter 1: Introduction (pdf)

Includes: Purpose of the plan | Description of planning area | How the plan is organized | Why plan was developed | What the plan will do | How the plan is used | The relationship with other plans | How the plan was developed | The planning process | Who developed the plan? | Resources and uses within the area | What the plan won't do | Plan actions | Plan implementation and modification

Chapter 2: Goals, Management Intent And Guidelines (pdf)

Introduction includes: Areawide land management policies | Definitions | Goals | Management intent | Framework of the plan | Guidelines by activity or resource value | Other state land

• Agriculture: see Settlement section
• Aquatic Farming (PDF)
• Fish and Wildlife Habitat and Harvest (PDF)
• Floating Facilities (PDF)
• Forestry (PDF)
• Grazing (PDF)
• Heritage Resources (PDF)
• Materials (PDF)
• Mineral Resources (PDF)
• Map 2.1 Mineral Orders (PDF)
• Public Recreation and Tourism (PDF)
• Settlement and Agriculture (PDF)
• Shoreline, Stream Corridors and Wetlands (PDF)
• Tidelands, Submerged Lands and Shorelands (PDF)
• Trails and Access (PDF)
• Transportation and Utilities (PDF)
• .Waterfront Development (PDF)
• Water Resources (PDF)

Chapter 3: Land Management Policies For Each Management Unit

Region and Map Locator (PDF)
Key to the two-letter land-use designations (PDF)

Introduction (PDF)
Includes: List of land use designations with their management intent and abbreviations | Management Intent | Disposal or Retention in State Ownership | Management Guidelines | Flexibility of the Plan

• Region 1 (PDF) - Hope (including Sunrise and Turnagain Pass)
     Map 1A: Point Possession (PDF)
     Map 1B: Hope, Ingram Creek (PDF)
• Region 2 - Seward Highway at the Hope Y;
         south to the end of Kenai Lake (PDF)
     Map 2A: Hope Y, Manitoba, Summit Lake (PDF)
     Map 2B: Moose Pass, Trail Lakes, E. Kenai Lake (PDF)
  
• Region 3 (PDF) - Seward and Resurrection Bay
     Map 3A: Seward & North Resurrection Bay (PDF)
     Map 3B: South Resurrection Bay (PDF)
  
• Region 4 (PDF) - Cooper Landing
     Map 4A: Cooper Landing (PDF)
  
• Region 5 (PDF) - Coastal Plain from Point Possession to Kenai River
     Map 5A: Point Possession (PDF)
     Map 5B: Captain Cook (PDF)
     Map 5C: Lower Kenai River, City of Kenai (PDF)
     Map 5D: Middle Kenai River (PDF)
  
• Region 6 (PDF) - Kasilof River Drainage
     Map 6A: Kasilof River (PDF)
  
• Region 7 (PDF) - Homer, Ninilchik & Anchor R. & Deep Ck. Drainages
     Map 7A: Deep Creek (PDF)
     Map 7B: Anchor River (PDF)
     Map 7C: Homer, Kachemak Bay (PDF)
  
• Region 8 (PDF) - Upper Kachemak Bay and Fox River Flats
     Map 8A: Fritz Creek & Upper Kachemak Bay (PDF)
  
• Region 9 (PDF) - South Side Kachemak Bay and Chugach Islands
     Map 9A: Seldovia (PDF)
     Map 9B: Chugach Islands (PDF)
  
• Region 10 (PDF) - Outer Coast of the Kenai Peninsula
     Map 10A: Aialik and Harris Bays (PDF)
     Map 10B: East Arm (PDF)
     Map 10C: Nuka Island (PDF)
  
• Region 11 (PDF) - West side Cook Inlet -- North of Redoubt Bay
     Map 11A: Chuitna River (PDF)
     Map 11B: Chakachamna River (PDF)
     Map 11C: Chakachamna Lake (PDF)
     Map 11D: Trading Bay (PDF)
     Map 11E: McArthur River (PDF)
     Map 11F: Redoubt Bay (PDF)
     Map 11G: Drift River (PDF)
     Map 11H: Redoubt Bay and Kalgin Island (PDF)
  
• Region 12 (PDF) - West side Cook Inlet -- South of Redoubt Bay
     Map 12A: Tuxedni Bay (PDF)
     Map 12B: South of Tuxedni Bay (PDF)
     Map 12C: Chinitna and Iniskin Bay (PDF)
     Map12D: Iliamna Bay and Ursus Cove (PDF)
     Map 12E: Bruin Bay (PDF)
     Map 12F: Kamishak Bay (PDF)
     Map 12G: Cape Douglas (PDF)

Management Intent for Navigable Waterbodies (PDF)

Chapter 4: Implementation And Recommendations (pdf) (PDF)

Includes: Introduction | State land classification | Special use land designations | Municipal entitlements | School Trust lands | Public Trust Doctrine | Types of plan changes | Surface leasing | Alaska Coastal Management Program | Mineral Orders | Oil and gas leasing and additions to the State Park System | Seward Highway Scenic Byway | Proposed additions to KRSMA, the State Park System, wildlife refuges, and management by other agencies

Appendices

A. Glossary (PDF)
B. Mineral Orders (PDF)
     Map B.1 - Mineral Orders (PDF)
C. Caribou Hills Management Plan and Special Use Land Designation (PDF)
     Map C.1 - Caribou Hills Management Plan (PDF)
D. Commissioner's Decision on Lake Clark, Kenai Fjords, Resurrection Bay and Exit Glacier Road Special Use Land Designations (PDF)
     Map D.1 - Lake Clark Special Use Land Designation (PDF)
     Map D.2 - Kenai Fjords Special Use Land Designation (PDF)
     Map D.3 - Resurrection Bay Special Use Land Designation (PDF)
     Map D.4 - Exit Glacier Road Special Use Land Designation (PDF)
E. Acreage of Designations by Region and Acreages in all Ownerships within the Planning Area (PDF)
F. Criteria for Resource Information Summary Rating (PDF)
G. Related Planning Documents (PDF)
H. Plan Index (PDF)

Questions? Contact Resource Assessment and Development Section at 269-8534

 

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