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The National Wildlife Refuge System was founded by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903, [3] to protect immense areas of wildlife and wetlands in the United States. This refuge system created the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 which conserves the wildlife of Alaska.
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge: Alaska AK December 2, 1980 [10] 3,421,420 acres (13,846.0 km 2) 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 ...
Name State(s) Acreage Area: km² Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Alaska: 19,286,482.30 78,049.62 Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge: Alaska 19,162,416.50
The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (often shortened to Alaska Maritime or AMNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge comprising 2,400 islands, headlands, rocks, islets, spires and reefs in Alaska, with a total area of 4.9 million acres (20,000 km 2), of which 2.64 million acres (10,700 km 2) is wilderness.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska"
In the course of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of December 2, 1980, the area boundaries were changed after political criticism and the status was downgraded to that of a wildlife refuge. It is the third-largest National Wildlife Refuge in the United States, although it is less than one-half the size of either of the two ...
It is adjacent to Kenai Fjords National Park. 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 ...
The refuge has a surface area of 4,102,537 acres (16,602.4 km 2). 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.