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Series: Alaska Park Science - Volume 13 Issue 1: Wilderness in Alaska

Type: Article

This issue includes: * Economics of Wilderness * Using Ethics Arguments to Preserve Naturalness * Busing Through the Wilderness: "Near-Wilderness" Experiences in Denali ... and more!

A Partnership to Remove Marine Debris from Alaskan Coastal Parks

Type: Article

Marine debris can affect marine mammals and birds through entanglement, strangulation, and digestive blockage. In summer 2015, we conducted an extensive multi-partner project to remove over 11 tons of marine debris from remote beaches in five Alaska parks.

Black History in the Last Frontier: Black Whalers in the North Pacific and Arctic

Type: Article

Black whalers were among the first Americans to reach Alaska, specifically its southeast panhandle, in the early 1840s. Some of these men had escaped enslavement in the American South, while others were free men of color from the North. It would have been difficult to find a more racially and geographically diverse industry than whaling in the nineteenth century.

Dark Night, Safe Flight

Type: Article

At night, birds use the stars to find their way (pretty cool, right?). But bright lights from buildings, towers, and houses can confuse them. That's why national parks are so important - they're like bird hotels! They give birds safe places to rest and eat, especially after flying across the ocean.

Excavating Qarigi at the Qitchauvik Site

Type: Article

The Qitchauvik site, on the shore of Golovin Lagoon. was the location of a men’s house, or qarigi, used between about A.D. 550 and 750. Qarigi are identified in the archeological record by their large size and by the low incidence, traditionally, of tools related to women’s activities such as sewing and cooking. The Golovin Field School excavated the site.

Memory influences where Western Arctic Herd caribou spend the winter

Type: Article

Read a summary and get the link to a published paper that describes how caribou decide where to spend the winter based on previous experience. Gurarie, E., C. Beaupré, O. Couriot, M. D. Cameron, W. F. Fagan, and K. Joly. 2024. Evidence for an adaptive, large-scale range shift in a long-distance terrestrial migrant. Global Change Biology 30 (11): e17589.

Project Profile: Improve Salmon Migratory Pathway Resilience

Type: Article

The National Park Service will use a collection of environmental DNA released by selected aquatic species to assess the presence, distribution, and composition of fish and macroinvertebrates in three parks in Alaska.

Wales Sites National Historic Landmark

Type: Place

Some of the oldest continuously occupied villages in Alaska are along the northwestern and northern coast, where whales, seals, walrus, and caribou have made it possible for people to live in the arctic. Wales Site is an associated site.

Project Profile: Detect Invasive Aquatics to Improve Salmon Habitat

Type: Article

The National Park Service will improve salmon habitat in the Yukon-Kuskokwim watershed by detecting invasive plants. Staff will survey high-priority rivers and lakes for invasive Elodea.

Project Profile: Mitigate Climate Change Impacts & Improve Subsistence Food Security Via Co-Stewardship Arrangements

Type: Article

The National Park Service will enhance climate change resilience and food security in rural Alaskan communities. The project prioritizes goals of building Tribal-NPS co-stewardship relationships that support Tribes’ ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions and associated food security challenges. Activities include improving harvest reporting strategies and conducting community harvest assessments. This project has additional goals to develop adaptive approaches.

Alaska’s Endangered Heritage: Climate Change and Cultural Preservation

Type: Article

The rugged beauty of Alaska has been the homelands of Alaska Native people for thousands of generations. Today the relentless march of climate change threatens a range of cultural resources from archeological sites to historic cemeteries. Now the National Park Service is in a race to document heritage across the parklands in Alaska.

Community Volunteer Ambassadors

Type: Article

The primary duty of the Community Volunteers Ambassadors is to encourage local residents, particularly young people, to volunteer for climate-resilience-related projects in the park.

Improving Salmon Resilience to a Warming Climate

Type: Article

Salmon are the lifeblood of much of Alaska. Extensive river and lake systems protected in Alaska national parks provide significant habitat for all five species of Pacific salmon. As the climate warms, rising temperatures may threaten these important salmon resources. This project, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), will describe reference conditions and potential targets for ecosystem recovery due to climate change, wildfires, oil spills, and other events.

Lava Flow Forms

Type: Article

Young lava flows also have structures and textures that reveal information about their eruptions. Basaltic lava flows come in two major forms: Pāhoehoe and ‘A‘ā.

Lava Flow Surface Features

Type: Article

Surface features on a lava flow may reveal important information of the specific dynamics that occurred during the eruption and emplacement of the flow.

NPS Geodiversity Atlas—Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska

Type: Article

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park.

Fire in Ecosystems: Arctic Tundra

Type: Article

Fires in the tundra happen less often than in the boreal forest. Fires can be sporadic and widely distributed. The years between fire events, called fire return intervals, vary widely from 30 years to over 1,000 years in the tundra.

Cape Nome Mining District Discovery Sites National Historic Landmark

Type: Place

The discovery of gold at Anvil Creek on September 20, 1898, was the first large gold placer strike to be made in Alaska proper. The resulting rush to Nome in 1899-1900 was Alaska's greatest gold stampede.

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

Nome Archaeology Camp: Using Place-based Education to Inspire the Next Generation of Stewards in the Bering Strait Region

Type: Article

Nome Archaeology Camp engages high school students from across Alaska in learning about the cultural heritage of the Bering Strait—past and present. They practice archaeological survey techniques, learn from elders and local experts, work with museum collections, and more. Alaska Park Science 20(2), 2021

Studying Long-term Patterns of Bering Strait Cultural Interaction and Exchange Through Archaeological Ceramic Analysis

Type: Article

The study of ceramic technology expands what we know about the extent of social networks over time. This work is exploring the mobility of social networks across Beringia and how people adapted to changing environmental and social circumstances. Alaska Park Science 20(2), 2021

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