Access Law and Issues Affecting Public and Private Lands in Alaska - 2016

I date this project page "2016" as February 26, 2016 was the last time that Dan Beardsley and I instructed this seminar. My notes indicate that the 2016 session was held at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage and we had 80 people in attendance. The beginnings of this presentation go back to some time in 1992.  The Alaska IRWA (International Right of Way Association) chapters had competed for and won the opportunity to hold the 1997 IRWA  Education Seminar in Alaska for the first time.  This was going to be a large undertaking and I was invited by Jay & Dan to join them in presenting the Access Law seminars as a fund raising tool. The Access Law seminar was held a half dozen times between 1992 and 1996 in Anchorage, Fairbanks and even once in Barrow (Utquiagvik).

P. J. "Jay" Sullivan, SR/WA - Bob Ylvisaker, SR/WA
Dan Beardsley, Esq., SR/WA - John Bennett, PLS, SR/WA

The photo to the left is from our February 22, 2007 presentation in Anchorage.  Bob Ylvisaker was the moderator.  The typical format would have Jay presenting RS2477 history & development as well as ANCSA 17(b) easements.  Dan presented general Alaska easement law along with case law related to section line easements, public land order ROW and public prescriptive easements.  I would fill in with discussion of section line easement research and  PLO rights-of-way.  The 2007 session was the last time Jay presented with us as he passed on November 2, 2012.  Alaska again hosted the IRWA Education Conference in 2017 and to support its funding, additional Access Law presentations were made in 2013 ,2014 and the final in 2016. In 2013, I filled in for Jay on the RS2477 history and Rick Elliott joined us to present the ANCSA 17(b) material.  The 2014 session was held in Fairbanks with Dan & I splitting the presentations as we did in 2016.  We lost Dan on January 30, 2021 which has brought the Access Law seminars to a close. 

Dan Beardsley, Esq., SR/WA - John Bennett, PLS, SR/WA
Paul Costello, SR/WA - Rick Elliot, SR/WA

The photo to the right is from the 2013 seminar in which we were joined by Rick Elliott.  Standing to my right is Paul Costello, SR/WA.  At this time he was close to retiring as the head of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Land Management unit. Paul is another of the active and experienced IRWA members who have since passed on. (October 8, 2016)

The bulk of my presentation for the Access Law seminar is based on my "Highway Rights-of-Way in Alaska" paper that was published with an initial date of March 3, 1993. It was also published as a part of the Chapter 2 - Guidelines section in the 1994 (Fourth) Edition of the Alaska Society of Professional Land Surveyors (ASPLS) Standards of Practice Manual.  The current edition updated to March 24, 2013 is available on the ASPLS website, the R&M Consultants, Inc. website BLOG and below.

Dan and I decided early on that as a part of our professional commitment, we would make the  presentations we prepared for the Access Law Seminars available to others at no cost.  While the papers we presented were easily distributed at the Seminars or on request, it was not very easy to distribute all of the source materials that were used in their preparation.  That is, in part, what this website is about.  My 1993 "Highways" paper includes approximately 230 footnotes, many of which refer to research documents. The document below may include duplicates or references that are marginally relevant.  However, my objective was to include almost everything that was in my research archive and let the following researchers decide for themselves what to keep and what to toss.  I hope you have as much fun with these materials as I have and are able to put it to good use.

Date Documents
Beardsley
Beardsley - misc
Bennett
Bennett - Resources
Bennett - Resources - 2. History
Bennett - Resources - 3. Interest
Bennett - Resources - 3. Interest - Estoppel
Bennett - Resources - 3. Interest - Omnibus
Bennett - Resources - 4. PLO
Bennett - Resources - 4. PLO - Alaska Land Title Case
Bennett - Resources - 4. PLO Case Law
Bennett - Resources - 4. PLO - EO 9145
Bennett - Resources - 4. PLO - PLO
Bennett - Resources - 4. PLO - PLO - BLM
Bennett - Resources - 4. PLO - PLO 1613
Bennett - Resources - 4. PLO - PLO 600dpi BlueBooks
Bennett - Resources - 4. PLO - PLO 601
Bennett - Resources - 4. PLO - School Lands
Bennett - Resources - 4. PLO - SO 2665
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails
 10/26/12
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - Allotments
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - Case Law
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - Case Law - Dalton
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - Case Law - Mills
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails Case Law - Puddicombe
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - Case -Law - Shultz
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - Case Law  SOA QTA - 40 Mile
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - Federal
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - Papers & Reports
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - State
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - State - 2001 Easement & RS2477 Regs
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - State - Candle Trail
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - State Coldfoot Trail
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - State - Klutina
Bennett -  Resources 5. RS-2477 Trails - State - Portage/Harrison
Bennett - Resources - 5. RS-2477 Trails - State - Trail Inventory 9.12.73
Bennett - Resources - 6. SLE - Allotment
Bennett - Resources - 6. SLE - ANCSA
Bennett - Resources - 6. SLE - Case Law
Bennett - Resources - 6. SLE - Federal
Bennett - Resources - 6. SLE - MHT Lands
Bennett - Resources - 6. SLE - Reports
/Bennett - Resources - 6. SLE - State
Bennett - Resources - 6. SLE - State - Protraction
Bennett - Resources - 6. SLE - State - Protraction - email
Bennett - Resources - 6. SLE - State - State Selected Lands
Bennett - Resources - 7. 1917 Territorial
Bennett - Resources - 8. '47 Act
Bennett - Resources - 8. '47 Act - Case Law
Bennett - Resources - 9. 44 LD 513
Bennett - Resources - 10. Federal Grants - BLM - FLPMA
Bennett - Resources - 10. Federal Grants - BLM - Pre FLPMA
Bennett - Resources - 10. Federal Grants - Federal Land Transfers
Bennett - Resources - 10. Federal Grants - FHWA - HED
Bennett - Resources - 10. Federal Grants - Forest Service
Bennett - Resources - 11. DNR
Bennett - Resources - 11. DNR - DNR FAQs
Bennett - Resources 12. Acquired
Bennett - Resources 13. Dedication
Bennett - Resources - 13. Dedication - \AGO
Bennett - Resources - 13. Dedication - Articles
Bennett - Resources - 13. Dedication - Case Law
Bennett - Resources - 13. Dedication - Examples
Bennett - Resources - 13. Dedication - Examples - Crow Creek Road
Bennett - Resources - 14. Patent Reservation - Case Law
Bennett - Resources - 14. Patent Reservation - Examples
Bennett - Resources - 15. Prescriptive
Bennett - Resources - 15. Prescriptive Case Law
Bennett - Resources - 16. ANCSA
Bennett - Resources - 16. ANCSA - 14(c)
Bennett - Resources - 16. ANCSA - 14(c) - 14c3 ROW
Bennett - Resources - 16. ANCSA - 17(b)
Bennett - Resources - 17. Other Federal Agencies - BIA - Allotments
Bennett - Resources - 17. Other Federal Agencies - BLM - Townsites
Bennett - Resources - 17. Other Federal Agencies - COE
Bennett - Resources - 18. ROW Disposal
Bennett - Resources - 18. ROW Disposal - Eric F 9.17.15
Bennett - Resources - 18. ROW Disposal - Eric F 9.17.15 - jfb
Bennett - Resources - Archived Papers Highways 1993
Bennett - Resources - Misc