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Bureau of Land Management www .blm .gov /pgdata /content /ak /en /prog /nlcs /steese _conserv .html The Steese National Conservation Area encompasses 1,200,000 acres (4,900 km 2 ) of public land about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska , and is administered by the Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Landscape ...
Wood-Tikchik State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Alaska north of Dillingham.Over 1,600,000 acres (650,000 ha) (6,500 km 2) in area—about the size of the state of Delaware—, comprising more than half of all state park land in Alaska and 15% of the total state park land in the country.
Adak National Forest is a small forest on Adak Island in Alaska. It consists of 33 pine trees that have clustered together at the base of a small hill. [ 2 ] The forest measures 40 ft (12 m) across and is less than 17 ft (5.2 m) tall.
The area that is now Chugach was settled by the Alutiiq thousands of years ago. It was first visited by Europeans in the mid-1700s and soon settled by Russian fur traders, who trapped the native sea otters. In 1867, the US purchased Alaska from Russia and gold was found in 1888. In 1907, the Chugach National Forest was created from a portion of ...
The Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge is a 3,500,000-acre (14,000 km 2) conservation area in Alaska. It lies within the floodplain of the Koyukuk River, in a basin that extends from the Yukon River to the Purcell Mountains and the foothills of the Brooks Range.
Specifically, ANWR occupies land beneath which there may be 7.7 to 11.8 billion bbl (1.22 to 1.88 billion m 3) of oil. In Alaska, it is known for major oil companies to work with the indigenous groups, Alaska native corporations, to drill and export millions of barrels of oil each year.
Known by the U.S. Forest Service as the "crown jewel", the Tongass stretches across 17 million acres of land and is Alaska's largest National Forest. [35] Alaska Wilderness League describes the Tongass as "one of the last remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world". [36] 70,000 people inhabit the region. [35]
The area is a major waterfowl breeding ground, and after a proposal to flood the Yukon Flats via a dam on the Yukon River was turned down, the Yukon Flats were deemed worthy of protection. On 1 December 1978, US President Jimmy Carter designated the Yukon Flats as a National Monument on the basis of the Antiquities Act of 1906.