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Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Alaska Peninsula and Becharof National Wildlife Refuges (N.W.R.), Revised Comprehensive Conservation Plan
Author: Alaska National Interest Lands
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the EnvironmentPublisher:
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Alaska Rollercoasters!
Author: Carole MarshPublisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793352282
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Alaska Earthquake Insurance
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Settlement and Development of Alaska
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Considers legislation to authorize Federal incorporation of companies for Alaskan settlement and development. Focuses on permitting participation of alien immigrants in programs of development companies.
Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest
Author: F. Stuart ChapinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019028854X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The boreal forest is the northern-most woodland biome, whose natural history is rooted in the influence of low temperature and high-latitude. Alaska's boreal forest is now warming as rapidly as the rest of Earth, providing an unprecedented look at how this cold-adapted, fire-prone forest adjusts to change. This volume synthesizes current understanding of the ecology of Alaska's boreal forests and describes their unique features in the context of circumpolar and global patterns. It tells how fire and climate contributed to the biome's current dynamics. As climate warms and permafrost (permanently frozen ground) thaws, the boreal forest may be on the cusp of a major change in state. The editors have gathered a remarkable set of contributors to discuss this swift environmental and biotic transformation. Their chapters cover the properties of the forest, the changes it is undergoing, and the challenges these alterations present to boreal forest managers. In the first section, the reader can absorb the geographic and historical context for understanding the boreal forest. The book then delves into the dynamics of plant and animal communities inhabiting this forest, and the biogeochemical processes that link these organisms. In the last section the authors explore landscape phenomena that operate at larger temporal and spatial scales and integrates the processes described in earlier sections. Much of the research on which this book is based results from the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research Program. Here is a synthesis of the substantial literature on Alaska's boreal forest that should be accessible to professional ecologists, students, and the interested public.
Gulf of Alaska/Cook Inlet Sale No.88
Author: Use of Wetland Habitats by Birds in the National Petroleum Reserve--Alaska
Author: Dirk V. DerksenPublisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Distribution, abundance, and use of wetland habitats by migratory birds were studied at 2 interior and 3 outer Arctic Coastal Plain sites in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska in 1977 and 1978.
The Community Development Quota Program in Alaska
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309060826
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book reviews the performance and effectiveness of the Community Development Quotas (CDQ) programs that were formed as a result of the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996. The CDQ program is a method of allocating access to fisheries to eligible communities with the intent of promoting local social and economic conditions through participation in fishing-related activities. The book looks at those Alaskan fisheries that have experience with CDQs, such as halibut, pollock, sablefish, and crab, and comments on the extent to which the programs have met their objectivesâ€"helping communities develop ongoing commercial fishing and processing activities, creating employment opportunities, and providing capital for investment in fishing, processing, and support projects such as infrastructure. It also considers how CDQ-type programs might apply in the Western Pacific.
Proposed Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Alaska Planning GroupPublisher:
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Category : Gates of the Arctic National Park (Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
A detailed assessment of environmental impacts associated with the establishment of the proposed park and the management of the land. Includes an inventory of the resources of the area.
