Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act ||This article
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Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (or ANILCA) was
a United States federal law passed in 1980 by the U.S. Congress
and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on December 2 of
that year. The law provided for the creation or revision of 15
National Park Service properties within Alaska and set aside
other public lands for the United States Forest Service and
United States Fish and Wildlife Service. In all, the act
provided for the designation of over 100 million acres (400,000
km2) of public lands, fully a third of which was set aside as
wilderness area. Protected areas  The act provided for the
creation or expansion of several Conservation System Units
(CSUs) including: - Denali National Park - Wrangell - St Elias
National Park and Preserve - Gates Of The Arctic National Park
and Preserve - Lake Clark National Park and Preserve - Kobuk
Valley National Park - Katmai Nation