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National Park Service U.S. Department of Interior Alaska Regional Office Alaska Park Science Anchorage, Alaska PROCEEDINGS OF THE CentrCentralal AlaskAlaskaa PParkark SciencSciencee SymposiumSymposium SeptemberSeptember 12-14,12-14, 2006 2006 Denali Park, Alaska Volume 6, Issue 2 Parks featured in this Table of Contents issue of Alaska Park Science Keynote Address Alaska Parks in a Warming Climate: Conserving a Changing Future __________________________ 6 S K A Yukon-Charley Rivers Synthesis L A National Preserve Crossing Boundaries in Changing Environment: Norton Sound A A Synthesis __________________________________________12 Monitoring a Changing Climate Denali National Park and Preserve Long-term Air Quality Monitoring Wrangell-St. Elias in Denali National Park and Preserve __________________18 National Park and Preserve Monitoring Seasonal and Long-term Climate Changes and Extremes in the Central Alaska Network__________ 22 Physical Environment and Sciences Glacier Monitoring in Denali National Park and Preserve ________________________________________26 Applications of the Soil-Ecological Survey of Denali National Park and Preserve__________________31 Bristol Bay Gulf of Alaska Using Radiocarbon to Detect Change in Ecosystem Carbon Cycling in Response to Permafrost Thawing____34 A Baseline Study of Permafrost in the Toklat Basin, Denali National Park and Preserve ____________________37 Dinosauria and Fossil Aves Footprints from the Lower Cantwell Formation (latest Cretaceous), Denali National Park and Preserve ____________________41 Landscape and Wildlife Ecology Landscape and Wildlife Ecology (cont.) Science for Management Interpreting Denali’s Landcover Types Dynamics of Small Mammal Populations in the Rock Creek An Integrated Study of Road Capacity with Fabric (Quilt)____________________________________44 Watershed, Denali National Park and Preserve __________69 at Denali National Park and Preserve __________________86 Cadmium Mobility and Bioaccumulation by Willow ____49 Using Science to Manage Subsistence Off Road Vehicle Wolf Foraging and Related Social Variations Alaska at the Crossroads of Migration: in Denali National Park ________________________________73 Use in Denali National Park and Preserve ______________89 Space-Based Ornithology ____________________________53 Diverse Recreation Experiences at Recommendations for Monitoring Fisheries and Subsistence Denali National Park and Preserve ____________________93 Kittlitz’s Murrelets in Icy Bay__________________________59 An American-Canadian Traditional Spread of an Invasive Plant on Alaska’s Apparent Changes in Abundance and Distribution Ecological Knowledge Study of the Roads and River Floodplains: A Network Model ________96 of Birds in Denali National Park and Preserve __________62 Upper Tanana River Fisheries ________________________78 Developing a Framework for Evaluating Grizzly Bear Population Ecology in Connecting Place with Science: Katie John Proposals for Research in Wilderness: Denali National Park and Preserve ____________________66 and the Tanada Creek Fish Weir ______________________83 Science to Protect and Learn from Parks______________100 2 This edition of the Alaska Park Science journal is devoted to summaries of scientific and scholarly presentations given September 12-14, 2006, at the Central Alaska Park Science Symposium. This event was the second in a planned series of four More than 100 authors and co-authors created and Alaska Park Science Symposia. The Glacier Bay Science delivered presentations at the Central Alaska Park Science Symposium, held in Juneau, Alaska, in October 2004 was Symposium. Symposium participants, other scientists the first in this series (Anonymous 2004, Piatt and Gende and scholars also peer-reviewed the summaries. This 2007). A third symposium, Park symposium and proceedings Science in the Arctic, is planned for would never have happened October 2008 in Fairbanks Alaska without their contributions and (ARCUS), and a fourth sympo- the participation of many other sium is proposed to focus on individuals and organizations. science in Alaska’s coastal parks The symposium planning com- in 2010. mittee members, principal sup- Our purpose in producing port staff, and sponsors are listed these proceedings was to provide in the symposium program and National Park Service photo abstracts (APSS 2006). Page five readers with succinct summaries References of a cross section of studies rele- of these proceedings lists the vant to the national parks in Alaska Park Science journal staff, Anonymous. 2004. Central Alaska and surrounding board members, and proceedings Glacier Bay Science Symposium. Alaska Park Science 3(2):40-41. areas (Denali National Park sponsors. We hope that you find and Preserve, Wrangell St-Elias infree the articles to be both interesting APSS (Alaska Park Science Symposium). 2006. National Park and Preserve, and and informative, and that this Program and Abstracts. Yukon-Charley Rivers National issue will be used for several years http://www.nps.gov/akso/apss_06.pdf Preserve). In producing these Photo by Sandy W as a reference about science in ARCUS. Park Science in the Arctic—Alaska Park Science Robert A. Winfree, Regional Science Advisor, summaries, the authors have Central Alaska. Symposium 2008. Alaska Region sought to provide readers with http://siempre.arcus.org/4DACTION/wi_cal_getEvent/670 enough detail to understand their main objectives, find- Robert A. Winfree Piatt, John F., and Scott M. Gende. 2007. ings, and conclusions of their studies. Readers seeking Alaska Regional Science Advisor Proceedings of the Fourth Glacier Bay Science additional details are referred to the references listed after Symposium. USGS Scientific Investigations Report each article. The original symposium program, with the 2007-5047. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5047/ original abstracts of these and many other presentations, Cover: Water testing in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, is also available through the Internet (APSS 2006). August 2005. National Park Service photo. 3 Acknowledgements infree Photo by Sandy W Author Affiliations Guy Adema, National Park Service, James G. Crock, U.S. Geological Survey, Connie Friend, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Denali National Park and Preserve Denver Federal Center Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge Andrea Blakesley, National Park Service, Kathryn G. Crummer, Department of Botany, Scott M. Gende, National Park Service, Denali National Park and Preserve University of Florida, Gainesville Glacier Bay Field Station Susan Boudreau, National Park Service, Edward Debevec, Institute of Arctic Biology, Larry P. Gough, U.S. Geological Survey, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve University of Alaska Fairbanks National Center Phil F. Brease, National Park Service, J. L. Deppe, NASA Postdoctoral Program/Oak Ridge Gordon Haber, Independent wildlife scientist, Denali National Park and Preserve Associated Universities, Denali Park, AK NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Brent H. Breithaupt, Geological Museum, Gary Holton, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Wyoming Koushik Dutta, Department of Botany, Alaska Native Language Center University of Florida, Gainesville F. Stuart Chapin, III, Institute of Arctic Biology, Philip Hooge, National Park Service, University of Alaska Fairbanks Norman Easton, Yukon College, Whitehorse, Denali National Park and Preserve Yukon Territory Neal Christensen, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Chad K. Hults, National Park Service, Denali Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute Anthony R. Fiorillo, Museum of Nature and National Park and Preserve Science, Dallas, TX Mark Clark, U.S.D.A, Michelle Kissling, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service Andrea L. Foster, U.S. Geological Survey, Juneau, AK Menlo Park, CA 4 Katie Knotek, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Eric Rexstad, Research Unit for Wildlife Powell Ranger Station, Clearwater National Forest Population Assessment, Centre for Research into Partners Ecological and Environmental Modelling, Paul J. Lamothe, U.S. Geological Survey, This issue was made possible with funding from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland Denver Federal Center National Park Foundation, the George Wright Society and Richard F. Sanzolone, U.S. Geological Survey, Peter Landres, Aldo Leopold Wilderness the National Park Service. Denver Federal Center Research Institute Alaska Park Science is published twice a year. Recent issues Edward A.G. Schuur, Department of Botany, Hanna Lee, Department of Botany, University of of Alaska Park Science are available for sale by the Alaska University of Florida, Gainesville Florida, Gainesville Natural History Association (www.alaskanha.org). Charitable Lewis C. Sharman, National Park Service, donations to help support this journal may be sent to: Alaska Stephen B. Lewis, Alaska Department of Fish and Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Game, Douglas, AK Natural History Association, 750 West Second Avenue, Suite 100, James Sickman, Soil and Water Science Anchorage, AK 99501 ATTN: Alaska Park Science. Adrienne Lindholm, National Park Service Department, University of Florida, Gainesville Paul M. Lukacs, Colorado Division of Wildlife, J. A. Smith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Fort Collins, CO Blaine T. Spellman, School of Natural Matthew J. Macander, ABR Inc., Fairbanks, AK Resources and Agricultural Sciences, Richard D. Mace, Montana Department of Fish, University of Alaska Fairbanks Wildlife, and Parks Pamela J. Sousanes, National Park Service, ISSN 1545-
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