AK Chapter comments on WOTUS

The Environmental Concerns committee, the Executive Committee and a an ad-hoc group of fisheries professionals worked to prepare comments in response to the current administrations reclassification of the Waters of the U.S. Definition.

“The Alaska Chapter of AFS opposes the proposed rule because it removes existing regulations and fails to adequately protect functionally-significant wetlands and thousands of miles of headwater streams in Alaska.”

Read the full letter submitted to Administrator Wheeler and Assistant Secretary James Here