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  2. Interior Alaskan wolf - Wikipedia

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    In Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve male wolves average 56.3 kg (111 lb) and females 44 kg (97 lb); in Denali National Park and Preserve male wolves average 52.6 kg (105 lb). [7] One specimen weighed 81.4 kilograms (179 lb). [8] [9] It was killed on 70 Mile River in east-central Alaska on July 12, 1939. [10]

  3. Togiak National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    It is the fourth-largest National Wildlife Refuge in the United States as well as the state of Alaska, which has all eleven of the largest NWRs. It is bordered in the southeast by Wood-Tikchik State Park, the largest state park in the United States. The Togiak Wilderness occupies 2,274,066 acres (920,282 ha) in the northern half of the refuge.

  4. Alexander Archipelago wolf - Wikipedia

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    The Alexander Archipelago wolf (Canis lupus ligoni), also known as the Islands wolf, [4] is a subspecies of the gray wolf.The coastal wolves of southeast Alaska inhabit the area that includes the Alexander Archipelago, its islands, and a narrow strip of rugged coastline that is biologically isolated from the rest of North America by the Coast Mountains.

  5. Wildlife of Alaska - Wikipedia

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    The Alaskan subspecies of moose (Alces alces gigas) is the largest in the world; adult males weigh 1,200 to 1,600 pounds (542–725 kg), and adult females weigh 800 to 1,300 pounds (364–591 kg) [17] Alaska's substantial moose population is controlled by predators such as bears and wolves, which prey mainly on vulnerable calves, as well as by ...

  6. Denali National Park and Preserve - Wikipedia

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    Park map Denali National Park and Preserve includes the central, highest portion of the Alaska Range , together with many of the glaciers and glacial valleys running southwards out of the range. To the north the park and preserve encompass the valleys of the McKinley , Toklat , and Foraker Rivers, as well as the Kantishna and Wyoming Hills.

  7. Smith: Voyageurs Wolf Project a beacon of facts on ...

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    Wisconsin rules allowed gray wolves to be shot or poisoned year-round and provided a bounty for dead wolves into the 1950s. By the 1960s wolves persisted in the Lower 48 only in northern Minnesota.

  8. Kenai Peninsula wolf - Wikipedia

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    Re-population of wolves from other areas onto the peninsula did not occur until the 1960s. It has been shown through DNA studies that, at minimum, the current population of wolves on the Kenai Peninsula mated with other Alaskan subspecies, as the structure of the current wolf population's DNA is similar to other mainland Alaskan subspecies. [11 ...

  9. Here's what it's like to visit Whittier, Alaska -- the 'town ...

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    Whittier, Alaska, is a small, remote town 60 miles south of Anchorage that is commonly referred to as the "town under one roof." About 217 people live there, and it's accessible only by boat or a ...