Environmental engineering and ecological baseline investigations along the Yukon River-Prudhoe Bay Haul Road
Brown J and Berg RL. 1980. Environmental engineering and ecological baseline investigations along the Yukon River-Prudhoe Bay Haul Road. CRREL Report. 80-19. US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. Hanover, NH
(Adapted from editors' abstract.) During 1975-1978 the Federal Highway Administration sponsored a series of environmental engineering investigations along the Yukon River to the Prudhoe Bay Haul Road. In 1976 the Department of Energy joined the investigations with an ongoing series of ecological projects. Both agencies' research efforts were conducted on a cooperative basis with Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory's in-house research program. The research focused on 1) an evaluation of the performance of the road, 2) an assessment of changes in the environment associated with the road, 3) documentation of flora and vegetation along the 577-km-long transect, 4) methodologies for revegetation and restoration, and 5) an assessment of biological parameters as indicators of environmental integrity. Specific studies were undertaken that investigated the climate along the road; thaw and subsidence; distribution and properties of road dust; vegetation distribution, disturbance, and recovery; and revegetation and restoration. This report presents background information on the region, detailed results of the road thaw subsidence and dust investigations, and summaries of revegetation, fuel gas line, vegetation distribution, soil, and weed studies.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Brown, Jerry; Berg, Richard
- Date of Issue
- 1980
- Publisher
- US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
- Units
- GAAR
- Keywords
- Climate, Dust, Environmental Impacts, Gates Of The Arctic National Park And Preserve, Haul road, Permafrost, Revegetation, Soils, Vegetation