Tongass was set aside in 1907, 71 years before Carters actions, and Carter could have gone further, Cecil Andrus wanted 100 million acres of monuments, Carter ended up setting aside 56 million acres as monuments . ANILCA did not settle the status of all federal lands in Alaska, none of the  lands of the Petroleum Reserve or  Bristol Bay or the waters of  the Arctic were mentioned in that law. It was understood in 1980, on both sides,  that the other areas would be addressed in the future. ANILCA was at its heart, a compromise.