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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Map. The Arctic is mostly an ocean surrounded by land. The Arctic is relatively covered by water, much of it is frozen. The glaciers and icebergs in the Arctic make up about 10% of Earth's land area. Most of the Arctic's liquid saltwater is from the Arctic Ocean's basin. Some parts of the ocean's surface are ...
The Mollie Beattie Wilderness is located in the northeastern section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is the second-largest designated wilderness area in the United States, after the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness. It has an area of approximately 8,000,000 acres (3,200,000 ha), and comprises over 40 percent of the area of Arctic NWR.
It lies to the west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which, as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service managed National Wildlife Refuge, is also federal land. At a size of 23,599,999 acres (95,506 square kilometres; 36,875 square miles), the NPRA is the largest tract of undisturbed public land in the United States. [2]
Map of Colorado. The area of the Arapaho National Forest area in red. Arapaho National Forest is a National Forest located in north-central Colorado, United States.The region is managed jointly with the Roosevelt National Forest and the Pawnee National Grassland from the United States Forest Service office in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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
Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge and Management Area: Gibson County Pike County: IN 1994 23,962 acres (96.97 km 2) [138] DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge: Harrison County Pottawattamie County Washington County, Nebraska: IA 1958 8,362 acres (33.84 km 2) [139] Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge: Iowa Illinois Wisconsin: IA 1989 911 ...
The Two Ponds National Wildlife Refuge. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service manages the eight National Wildlife Refuges within Colorado. Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge; Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge; Baca National Wildlife Refuge; Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge; Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge; Rocky Flats National ...
The National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska is to the West, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the east, and Prudhoe Bay is between them. The Alaska North Slope is the region of the U.S. state of Alaska located on the northern slope of the Brooks Range along the coast of two marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean , the Chukchi Sea being on the ...