This document finalizes the Bureau of Land Management's plan for managing 8.8 million acres of public land in the Northwest portion of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The decision by Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton as documented slightly modifies the BLM's preferred management alternative, which the Bureau described in a final Environmental Impact Statement on the management plan.

"This report describes the ecological systems of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) at a level sufficient to provide a basis for broad management and land use decisions."--P. 1.