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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.
On the northern edge of the refuge is the Inupiat village of Kaktovik (population 258) [17] and on the southern boundary the Gwich'in settlement of Arctic Village (population 152). [17] A popular wilderness route and historic passage exists between the two villages, traversing the refuge and all its ecosystems from boreal , interior forest to ...
The program was a test on whether decreased wolf population would cause the population of caribou, moose, and Dall sheep to increase. [ 16 ] [ 21 ] Subsequently, it could be decided that the major limiting factor in terms of the population growth of these species is attributed to predation by the Yukon wolf.
The gray wolf was extirpated by federal and state governments from all of the U.S. by 1960, except in Alaska and northern Minnesota. The decline in North American wolf populations was reversed from the 1930s to the early 1950s, particularly in southwestern Canada, because of expanding ungulate populations resulting from improved regulation of ...
The Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge is a protected wetland area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It encompasses most of the Yukon Flats, a vast wetland area centered on the confluence of the Yukon River, Porcupine River, and Chandalar River.
Researchers forced to cut short an annual survey of wildlife on a remote Lake Superior island this winter due to unusually warm weather announced Tuesday that they managed to gather data that ...
The wolf population in Wyoming was then controlled by the state. But on September 23, 2014, wolves in Wyoming were again listed as nonessential experimental population under the Endangered Species Act. [124] As of 2014, the Northwestern United States, with the exception of Alaska, has an estimated population of 1,802 wolves. [125]
Cottongrass on the refuge wetlands. Selawik National Wildlife Refuge in northwest Alaska in the Waring Mountains was officially established in 1980 with the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA).