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8/24/10: Please see Land
sale solution may not be secure below.
The ice road portage between Big Lake
and Mud Lake is at risk of being sold.
8/23/10: Terry Snyder
asked for this to be posted for
donations for children returning to
school in Big Lake. I assume the
schools take donations of this sort. -
Larry
"...the MSD website
http://www.matsuk12.us/matsu/site/default.asp
has all
district supply lists online and it’s
easy to see what your neighborhood
school requests students bring in the
way of supplies. I know a extra pair of
gloves, snow pants etc are always
appreciated too. You would be surprised
to learn the number of kids that show
up with nothing so even a few things
will help."
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8/24 /10
Land sale solution may not be secure:
The following is dated August 13th.
Rep. Neuman:
To update you where we are today…
Because we are still doing research on the access
issues related to the sale of Trust land
near Flat Lake, we decided to suspend
the sale of two parcels in the online
competitive sale, until we determine it
appropriate to pull them permanently or
put them back on the market.
Our intent is to finish the easement/land status
research and then be able to get
together with you to present our
findings. So far, we have found that
there are a number of undeveloped public
access easement alternatives to Flat
Lake; but we want to confirm that roads
and easements along those routes are
contiguous in legal nature. The research
has gone somewhat slow because of the
complexity of land ownership, as you
might expect.
Victor will let Larry Taylor know where we are so he
can update the community via his Flat
Lake website.
Thanks for your patience,
Marcie Menefee
Acting Executive Director
Trust Land Office
718 L Street, Suite 202
Anchorage, AK 99501
phone (907) 269-8753
fax (907) 269-8905
I wrote back to Mark and
he asked them for
clarification, (but we
have not yet had a
response) as follows:
Thanks for forwarding
this to me. I
appreciate that she has
pulled the lots where
the winter ice road is
located from the current
sale. However, it seems
that when she says, "...there
are a number of
undeveloped public
access easement
alternatives to Flat
Lake..."
what she is saying is
that those other
easements are acceptable
access and that, when
they prove them up, they
will put the two land
parcels that they pulled
from the sale back on
the market. The problem
remaining if they do so
is that the winter car
and truck ice road
access to Mud and Flat
Lakes will be shifted
from straight across the
lake system back onto
the summer road system
around the lakes via
South Big Lake Road,
Susitna Parkway, and
Purinton Road. While
this is gives viable
access during the
summer, the twisty roads
do not afford as safe
access in the winter and
can add fifteen to
twenty minutes to a
normal commute.
This would not be
acceptable.
Very truly yours,
Larry Taylor
I later spoke to the
Haggards, who say the
fuel and septic trucks
use this ice road
portage,
too.
My recommendation is
to call
Marcie Menefee, above,
and politely express
concern over the
potential loss of the
Big Lake to Mud Lake ice
road portage. -
Larry Taylor
State
Government Contact (Thanks for your help
Mark!):
Representative_Mark_Neuman@legis.state.ak.us
Haggard Boat Storage:
http://haggardstorage.com/
Carolyn and Dale
Haggard
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-
Steve Wright, Crooked Lake
Flat Lake 9/2/10
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opportunity.
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Island 6/29/08
Excerpts from an Alaskan writer's
manuscript,
How Ice Freezes, Flying
Squirrels, Ice Puppy photos,
and Iced In:
Back To The Woods, On Flat Lake Time.
Samples of each of the
Elements in the Periodic
Table that are safe
to display excite mineralologists
and chemists at the
Alaska
Museum of Natural History
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