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The James W. Dalton Highway, usually referred to as the Dalton Highway (and signed as Alaska Route 11), is a 414-mile (666 km) [1] road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway , north of Fairbanks , and ends at Deadhorse (an unincorporated community within the CDP of Prudhoe Bay ) near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields .
This refuge system created the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 which conserves the wildlife of Alaska. In 1929, a 28-year-old forester named Bob Marshall visited the upper Koyukuk River and the central Brooks Range on his summer vacation "in what seemed on the map to be the most unknown section of Alaska." [4]
The Porcupine caribou is a herd or ecotype of the mainland barren-ground caribou (Rangifer arcticus arcticus, syn. R. tarandus groenlandicus [1]), the subspecies of the reindeer or caribou found in Alaska, United States, and Yukon and the Northwest Territories, Canada.
Caribou are found in the wild, whereas reindeer are typically domesticated (caribou in Alaska that have been domesticated are also referred to as reindeer). Because of that, they are more tame and ...
Prudhoe Bay / ˈ p r uː d oʊ / is a census-designated place (CDP) located in North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.As of the 2020 census, the population of the CDP was 1,310 people, down from 2,174 residents in the 2010 census, and up from just 5 residents in 2000; however, at any given time, several thousand transient workers support the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field.
Anaktuvuk is the English way of spelling "anaqtuġvik", place of caribou droppings in Inupiaq, the language of the Inupiat. [8] A nomadic group of Inupiat called Nunamiut lived inland in northern Alaska, hunting caribou instead of the marine mammals and fish hunted by the rest of the Inupiat, who live on the coast. [9]
Attempts have been made to build a road through the refuge connecting the towns of King Cove to Cold Bay. One such attempt proposed a land transfer of 43,000 acres (170 km 2 ) of land owned by the state of Alaska and the King Cove Corporation in exchange for construction of a single-lane 17-mile (27 km) road which would pass through Izembek NWR.
Atigun Pass (/ ˈ æ t ɪ ɡ ə n / AT-i-gən [1]), elevation 4,739 feet (1,444 m), is a high mountain pass across the Brooks Range in Alaska, located at the head of the Dietrich River. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is where the Dalton Highway crosses the Continental Divide (at mile marker 244), and is the highest pass in Alaska that is maintained throughout ...