One of his greatest achievements as president was the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which created benefits and opportunities that have served us well and will continue to serve many generations into the future.
The universal response to President Jimmy Carter’s passing was perhaps best stated by his son Chip as the loss of “a hero to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love.” To millions of people around the world, he exemplified a lifetime journey of compassion, care and courage.
This act designated an area of 157 million acres, larger than the states of California and Washington combined, as national parks, national wildlife refuges, national monuments, wild and scenic rivers, and national forests. It was the single largest expansion of protected lands in America’s history. ANILCA guaranteed that current and future generations would have access to the lands and natural resources necessary to sustain the economy, preserve our culture, and put food on the table.
In 2009, the Interior secretary asked me to chair the National Park System Advisory Board, which I did for nearly eight years. I saw firsthand that the designation of 43 million new acres of national parks in Alaska under ANILCA, which more than doubled the size of America’s entire National Park system, did not lock up but rather opened up this land to millions of visitors from Alaska, the U.S. and around the world.
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