School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management, Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station
Abstract
The reservation of agricultural lands is one of the most urgent, and least
recognized, problems facing Alaskans today. While more than 17 million
acres suitable for agricultural tillage have been identified, fewer than 20,000
acres, in widely scattered locations, are now being tilled and they are
increasingly suffering the ravages of suburban, urban, and industrial
encroachment. Most lands suitable for agricultural tillage in the future, and
all lands suited to domestic livestock grazing, are now in public ownership
and control; yet public land use plans do not include agricultural
production1 as a consideration for the future in Alaska
