...gas in the region. It owns several hundred thousand acres in the lower Innoko River area, but Jim Mery, Doyon vice president for lands, said Doyon does not have any pending oil, gas or mineral exploration projects in the area and releasing animals...

...has agreed to pay slightly less than half. "We felt the settlement was a fair one," Keith Sanders, CIRI's vice president for land and legal affairs, said Tuesday. The settlement will allow CIRI to avoid further legal costs, he said. The...

...company asked the corporation to develop housing in that area, it would be willing, said Dave Goade, Goldbelt's vice president for lands. Before Goldbelt can build the road, or anything at the end of it, it needs a permit from the U.S. Army...

...turned out to be far more complicated and expensive than expected 30-plus years ago, said Jim Mery, Doyon's vice president for lands. "Most of us thought most of these lands would be conveyed years ago," he said. "People didn't realize...

...company asked the corporation to develop housing in that area, it would be willing, said Dave Goade, Goldbelt's vice president for lands. ``Even at full development, it would make Angoon look like New York City,'' Goade said. ``It's tiny...

...with partner Kerr-McGee in the Beaufort Sea sale accounted for $466,000 of Armstrong's bids. Ed Kerr, vice president for land and business development for Armstrong Oil and Gas, said the prospects Armstrong is looking for in Alaska are...

...initial find of about 60 billion cubic feet could be enough to call the foray a success, said Jim Mery, Doyon's vice president for land and resources. He estimated the basin could hold 1 trillion to 6 trillion cubic feet of gas. For comparison...

...is vital to its future. "It's clearly taken longer than most people anticipated," said Jim Mery, senior vice president for lands and natural resources for the Fairbanks-based Native corporation. Mery pointed out that several Yukon Flats...