Building in an Ashen Land: Katmai National Park and Preserve Historic Resource Study
Clemens J and Norris F. 1999. Building in an Ashen Land: Katmai National Park and Preserve Historic Resource Study. National Park Service Anchorage Support Office. Anchorage, Alaska
This study is a collective view of what human activity has taken place in Katmai by looking at what buildings and structures have been constructed. Katmai National Park and Preserve is located at the base of the Alaska Peninsula, a volcano-studded protrusion which stretches over 400 miles to the southwest before it terminates at False Pass. An undeniable immense area is enclosed within the park. The lands and waters within its boundaries- 3,674,541 acres in Katmai National Park and another 418,699 acres in Katmai National Preserve- span almost the width of the peninsula, and its boundaries extend along the base of the peninsula in a north-south orientation for more than 100 miles. The present park and preserve is the fifth largest National Park Service unit in Alaska. Even so, the combined area of the two units is larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island put together; that area is far more expansive than the largest national park in the Lower 48 states and almost twice as large as Yellowstone. Katmai, as sizeable as it is, is only one small part of an enormous federal block that stretches, in an almost unbroken line, some 400 miles from Kamishak Bay to the tip of the Alaska Peninsula.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Clemens, Janet; Norris, Frank
- Date of Issue
- 1999
- Publisher
- National Park Service Anchorage Support Office
- Units
- DENA , HIST , KATM
- Keywords
- Alaska, Alutiiq, Clam Canning, Coastal Sugpiat, cultural diversity, Cultural Resources, ehistory, Fishing, Fox farming, Fur Trade, herding, historic resource, Historic Structures, History, Katmai, Mining, Natural Resources, Park Management, Pumice, Recreation, Reindeer, Resource Management, Russian Period, salmon canning, Savonoski, Savonoski People, Tourism, Transportation, Trapping, Volcanic Activity