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This refuge system created the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 which conserves the wildlife of Alaska. In 1929, a 28-year-old forester named Bob Marshall visited the upper Koyukuk River and the central Brooks Range on his summer vacation "in what seemed on the map to be the most unknown section of Alaska." [4]
Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge: Alaska AK December 2, 1980: 3,574,259 acres (14,464.51 km 2) Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Alaska AK December 6, 1960 [11] 19,287,042 acres (78,051.89 km 2) Becharof National Wildlife Refuge: Alaska AK December 2, 1980 [12] 1,200,419.52 acres (4,857.9254 km 2) Innoko National Wildlife Refuge: Alaska AK
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
This refuge was created in 1941 as the Kenai National Moose Range, but in 1980 it was changed to its present status by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The refuge is administered from offices in Soldotna. The Kenai Wilderness protects 1,354,247 acres of the refuge as wilderness area. [2]
Here is a list of the largest National Wildlife Refuges in the United States. It includes all that are larger than 50,000 acres (200 km 2 ), but excludes those in U.S. territories (also officially in the system).
White Mountains National Recreation Area is a national recreation area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located to the north of Fairbanks between the Elliott Highway and the Steese Highway in the White Mountains , with about 1,000,000 acres (400,000 ha) within its boundaries.
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday moved to put more of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off limits to oil and gas development, in a last-minute bid to complicate ...
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 .