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The state also owns the freshwater resources of the state, a resource that equals about 40% of the entire nation's fresh water flow." [citation needed] As stated above, aside from fish and game, for matters to do with resources such as timber, oil, natural gas or water, the Department of Natural Resources is the governing authority.
The Alaskan portion of the Alaska Highway was proposed to be designated part of U.S. Highway 97 (US-97), but this was never carried out. Certain prior editions of USGS topographic maps, mostly published during the 1950s, do bear the US-97 highway shield along or near portions of the current AK-2.
The location of the state of Alaska in relation to the rest of the United States of America The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Alaska : Alaska – most extensive , northernmost , westernmost , highest , second newest , and least densely populated of the 50 states of the United States of ...
Map from the US Bureau of Land Management showing structures that create the oil fields in Alaska North Slope geologic cross section Geophysical Service Inc. seismic exploration crew, Deadhorse, Alaska, 1981. Under the North Slope is an ancient seabed, which now contains large amounts of petroleum. Within the North Slope, there is a geological ...
Southcentral Alaska (Russian: Юго-Центральная Аляска), also known as the Gulf Coast Region, [1] is the portion of the U.S. state of Alaska consisting of the shorelines and uplands of the central Gulf of Alaska. More than half of the state's entire population lives in this region, concentrated in and around the city of ...
This article discusses transportation in the U.S. state of Alaska. Alaska has a small population within a very large geographic area. The geographic differences mean that no single transportation strategy works for the state as a whole. Roads connect the major Southcentral population centers with Fairbanks and the Canadian border. Barges supply ...
A map of northern Alaska showing the location of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPRA). The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) is an area of land on the Alaska North Slope owned by the United States federal government and managed by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM). [1]
Southwest Alaska includes a huge swath of terrain 500 miles (800 km) from the western Bering Sea coast to Cook Inlet.Although much of the region is coastal, it also includes tens of thousands of square miles of interior boreal forests, swamps, and highlands, and the immense mountain barrier of the southern Alaska/Aleutian Range.