Resource management plan, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve

Ulvi, Steve

This comprehensive plan provides detailed steps to be taken for managing natural resources, cultural resources, and subsistence in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. The natural resources management program speaks to: 1) threatened and endangered species, 2) furbearer monitoring and harvest, 3) avian resources inventories and monitoring, 4) aquatic resources population assessments and distributions, 5) vegetation inventories and monitoring, 6) small mammal inventories and monitoring, 7) physical resources monitoring, 8) the natural fire regime, 9) air quality monitoring, 10) database management, 11) recreation and subsistence impacts on wilderness values, 12) collecting baseline data in the Kobuk Transportation Corridor, 13) mineral industry management, 14) censusing and monitoring ungulate populations and harvests, 15) assessing muskox breeding potential, 16) environmental education in communitites around the Park, 17) surveys of bear populations, habitats, and harvests, 18) hazardous materials management, and 19) inventories of wetlands. The cultural resources management plan addresses: 1) archeological surveys and inventories, 2) cultural landscapes, 3) cabin surveys, 4) archeological site evaluations, 5) ethnohistory, 6) ethnographic overviews, 7) natural history and cultural museum collections, 8) Park administrative history, 9) oral history, 10) protecting cultural sites, 11) obsidian hydration dating chronology development, 12) oral documentation of the Little Chandler Lake kayak caribou hunt, 13) and mining histories. The subsistence management program speaks to: 1) documenting current and past uses, 2) education, 3) studying traditional use areas, 4) database creation, 5) trapping, and 6) resident zone boundaries. Workplans and associated budgets are included.

Resource management plan, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve

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