The Politics of Hydroelectric Power in Alaska: Rampart and Devil Canyon -- A Case Study

Originally published January 1978, revised October 1978. OWRT Agreement No. 14-34-0001-7003 Project No. A-060-ALAS. Completion Report.Hydroelectric power in Alaska has had a curious history--and an instructive one. This study focuses on three separate projects: Eklutna, Rampart, and Devil Canyon. The Eklutna project functions today; Rampart was not constructed; and the Devil Canyon project is still in the planning stage. Yet for all their differences in location, goals, and fate, the projects were related; and, taken together, their histories highlight all the essential political elements involved in hydroelectric power construction. There is still a fourth project which is functioning today--the Snettisham installation near Juneau which is not considered in this paper. A complex decision-making process determines the progress of such large projects. In following these three Alaskan projects, we can gain a better perspective on the roles of the several government agencies and the public; thus we can assess some of the inherent complexities. Such an assessment fully substantiates the conclusion that it takes more than moving dirt to build a dam.The work upon which this completion report is based was supported by funds provided by the U. S. Department of the Interior, Office of Water Research and Technology as authorized under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, Public Law 88-379, as amended

A History of the Alaska Federal District Court System, 1884-1959, and he Creation of the State Court System

Prepared Pursuant to RSA 410059 between the Alaska Court System and the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska.The First Organic Act of 1884 Creates a Judicial System -- The First U.S. District Court, Sitka -- Judge James Wickersham -- Judge Arthur H. Noyes and the Nome Scandals -- The Case of Vuco Perovich -- The Short and Unhappy Judgeship of Silas Hinkle Reid -- Pelagic Sealing in the Bering Sea -- Taking Care of Alaska's Insane -- Insanity is in the Eye of the Beholder -- Judge Charles E. Bunnell -- Moving the District Court From Valdez to Anchorage -- The Floating Court -- The Post World War II Period Strains Alaska's Judicial System -- The Creation of the Alaska State Court System -- Appendix A -- Appendix

Final Report

State-funded report done by Contract; prepared for State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Division of Planning and Programming, Research SectionACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE: EARLY EXPLORATION OF ALASKA -- CHAPTER TWO: THE APPOINTMENT OF RICHARDSON AS PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF ROAD COMMISSIONERS FOR ALASKA -- CHAPTER THREE: WILDS P. RICHARDSON AND JAMES WICKERSHAM -- CHAPTER FOUR: THE BOARD OF ROAD COMMISSIONERS FOR ALASKA, 1912-1917 -- CHAPTER FIVE: A NEW ERA FOR THE ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION --CHAPTER SIX: THE BOARD OF ROAD COMMISSIONERS FOR ALASKA, 1920-1925 -- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE MIDDLE YEARS OF THE 1920s -- CHAPTER EIGHT: HIGH HOPES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS -- CHAPTER NINE: THE LAST FEW YEARS UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT, 1929-1932 -- CHAPTER TEN: THE ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION AND ALASKAN AVIATION -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE TRANSFER OF THE ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION -- CHAPTER TWELVE: TOLLS ON THE RICHARDSON HIGHWAY -- CHAPTER THIRTEEEN: THE DIFFICULT YEARS OF THE EARLY 1930s -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE LATTER YEARS OF THE LEAN 1930s -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE WAR YEARS -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE FUROR OVER HOUSE REPORT NO. 1705 -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: POSTWAR REORGANIZATION AND A PROPOSED FERRY SYSTEM -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: PECULIAR ALASKAN PROBLEMS, THE STRUGGLE FOR PREEMINENCE, AND THE GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE -- CHAPTER NINETEEN: THE FLUSH YEARS -- CHAPTER TWENTY: THE LAST YEARS OF THE ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION -- APPENDIX A: MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ROAD COMMISSIONERS FOR ALASKA,1905-1932 -- APPENDIX B: LAWS RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS IN ALASKA -- APPENDIX C: WORK PERFORMED DURING THE 1917 CONSTRUCTION SEASON -- APPENDIX D: RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY - FORT GIBBON (TANANA) TO KOYUKUK AND KOBUK RIVERS TO KOTZEBUE, 1923-1924 -- APPENDIX E: SUMMARY OF ALL EXPENDITURES TO JUNE 30, 193

ERNEST GRUENING ALASKA'S TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR 1939 to 1953

Performed under a grant of the Alaska State Legislature for the Alaska State Librar

Final Report

This is the continuation of a research project which I undertook several years ago for DOT&PF. I delivered the final report in June, 1983, entitled Alaska Road Commission Historical Narrative. Subsequently, the Alaska Historical Commission provided an editing and a pre-publication grant. The University Press of America, Inc. of Lanham, Maryland accepted the revised manuscript for publication and it was published in November 1986 entitled Paving Alaska's Trails: The Work of the Alaska Road Commission. The present report continues the narrative from 1956 to 1959.Prepared for: State of Alaska, Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Division of Planning and Research. RSA No. 87NP027 between DOT&PF and the University of Alaska, FairbanksAlaska's Inclusion in the Federal-Aid Highway Act -- The Transition from the Alaska Road Commission to the Bureau of Public Roads -- The Plan for a Taku River Valley Road -- Fitting Alaska Into the Federal-Aid Highway System -- Transportation and the Northern Economy, Adapting the 1956 FAHA to the Territory and the Creation of the Alaska Department of Highways and Public Works -- Planning for a Southeastern Alaska Ferry System -- The Bureau of Public Roads Deals with Alaskan Conditions -- Alaska Statehood and the Transition -- Region 10 Under Contract to the State and a Slow Phase-Ou

Alaska Government and Politics (Research Summary)

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