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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 Arctic is relatively covered by water, much of it is frozen. The glaciers and icebergs in the Arctic make up about 10% of Earth's land area. Most of the Arctic's liquid saltwater is from the Arctic Ocean's basin. Some parts of the ocean's surface are frozen all or most of the year. The Arctic area is mainly known for sea ice surrounding the ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Projected levels of increased oil production from ANWR to mean Alaskan production volumes [54]. In 1998, the USGS estimated that between 5.7 and 16.0 billion barrels (2.54 × 10 9 m 3) of technically recoverable crude oil and natural gas liquids are in the coastal plain area of ANWR, with a mean estimate of 10.4 billion barrels (1.65 × 10 9 m 3), of which 7.7 billion barrels (1.22 × 10 9 m 3 ...
Allen Army Airfield (IATA: BIG, ICAO: PABI, FAA LID: BIG) is a public and military use airport serving Fort Greely and located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Delta Junction, a city in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
The South Baranof Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area within the Tongass National Forest, located on Baranof Island, Alaska. Covering 319,568 acres south of Sitka , the South Baranof protects glacier-carved fjords, hanging valleys, old-growth temperate rainforests and sheer granite mountains.