ALASKA SURVIVAL v. STATE, DEPT. OF NAT. RES.

No. S-996.

723 P.2d 1281 (1986)

ALASKA SURVIVAL, Paul Bratton, Judy Price, G.M. Chartrand, and Millie Gray, Appellants, v. STATE of Alaska, DEPARTMENT of NATURAL RESOURCES; Esther C. Wunnicke, Commissioner, State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources; and Thomas Hawkins, Director, Division of Forest, Land and Water Management, State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

Rehearing Denied October 29, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Adler, Eric Smith, Stephan H. Williams, Trustees for Alaska, Anchorage, for appellants.

M. Francis Neville, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, and Harold M. Brown, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellees.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

This appeal challenges a state land disposal of thirty-two agricultural homesteads near Talkeetna. A group of local residents sued to block the 3,530-acre offering. The superior court upheld the decision of the State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to dispose of the land in a September 1984 lottery. We conclude that the disposal was invalid because DNR failed to comply with the land use planning process mandated by statute....

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