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Our Lasting Frontier Barrow0 I nup1at. H entage. Center Alaska is expansive and diverse. Its magnitude is difficult to compre­ hend, but its rewards are many and apparent. For climate and topography, "the BEAlFOR T SEA Great Land" constitutes a virtual subcontinent. Seventeen National Park System areas protect representative natural, cultural, and historic features of this immense landscape. Ten were created by the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. This brochure introduces Alaska's national parklands and national wild and scenic rivers administered by the National Park Service, as well as two complementary affiliated areas t o which the National Park Service provides technical aid. Anaktuvuk Pass Travel Tips Cape Krusenstern For More Informat ion Visiting the Alaska National Parklands requires For information about individual areas, contact planning. Alaska's isolation and vastness can them-see the back of this brochure-or visit the make travel to and through the state challenging. National Park Service homepage at www.nps.gov. Just getting to Alaska can be an adventure-by air, Kobuk For information about other public lands in Alaska 8e'tles/EVansW' P. highway, and/or sea. Commercial airlines serve I Valley visit or contact the Alaska Public Lands Informa­ Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks, and other cities. tion Centers in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Ketchikan, Cruise ships ply Alaska's southeastern waters Bering Land Bridge \ and Tok or visit their homepage at www.nps.gov through the Inside Passage. The state ferry sys- /aplic. Contact: Anchorage Alaska Public Lands tem, the Alaska Marine Highway, transports peo- s''" ~~'? Information Center, 605 West Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501-2248, 907-271-2737, TDD i.--......,p"'l"'e"a"n'-~'=~~:e::~o::::. ~::~t:e:tr:~~~:=----------- .., Z r,;,"-. °?'-_________.,_ _,....:;_~---------~-.....:.- . lic--l..<md&---- The Alaska Highway extends 1,500 miles from v~'' lnfonmation Center, 250 Cushman Street, Suite 1 A, Dawson Creek, British Columbia, t o Fai rbanks and / Fairbanks, AK 99701-4848, 907-456-0527, TDD provides a land link with roads to the south. The Alaska Public Lands -­ 907-456-0532; Southeast Alaska Visitor Center, 50 Information Center Alaska Highway, paved in Alaska and most of Main Street, Ketchikan, AK 99901-6659, 907-228- Canada, is maintained year round. 6214, TDD 907-228-6237; and Tok Alaska Public Lands Information Center, Box 359, Tok, AK 99780- Once in Alaska you may again have several 0359, 907-883-5667. options for travel to the parklands. Unlike most National Park Service areas in the Lower 48, most Denali Tourist information is available from the Alaska in Alaska are not accessible by road. Scheduled jet Division of Tourism, Department of Commerce and service to cities near some parklands puts you Uses of Parklands Economic Development, P.O. Box 110801, Juneau, within air-taxi distance. To see or experience Many national parklands in Alaska are designated AK 99811-0801 , 907 -465-2010, www.commerce. Alaska's more remote reaches can require signifi­ as national preserves. This desi nation allows for Nabesna state.ak.us./tourism/homenew.htm. For informa­ cant added time, effort, and money and may uses not typical in national parku or national m on­ 0 tion about ferry or railroad travel in Alaska contact: involve air and boat charters, rafts, kayaks, and uments. Within these preserves, sport hunting and Alaska Marine Highway System, P.O. Box 25535, hiking. See the back of this brochure for access trapping are permitted subject to state fish and Juneau, AK 99802-5535, 800-642-0066, www.dot. information for the individual parklands. game laws, seasons, and bag limits and to federal Alaska Public Lands state.ak.us/external/ amhs/home.html or Alaska Information C en t er~ 0 McCarthy laws and regulations. Railroad Corp. Passenger Services, P.O. Box Private Lands Wrangell­ 107500, Anchorage, AK gg510-7500, 800-544-0552, Traditional subsistence hunting, fishing, and gath­ Privately owned lands are located within and next Bethel O Saint Elias www.akrr.com. to parklands boundaries throughout Alaska. These ering uses by rural Alaskans continue on many na­ private lands are not open to public use or travel tional parklands here. Subsistence uses include without permission from the owners. Check with customary and traditional uses of wild renewable CordOVQ 0 Klondike the appropriate park superintendent to determine resources for direct personal or family consump­ Lake Gold Rush the location of private lands and public ease­ tion. Local residency and customary reliance on Clark hunting, fishing, and gathering determine eligibili­ illamna ments. Unauthorized use or travel across private 0 0 lands or public easements could be deemed crim­ ty for continued subsistence uses on national Yakutat inal trespass. parklands. Kenai Fjords 0 Dillingham ~ Glacier Bay Gustavus King Salmon 0 Katmai Superimposing Alaska­ Kodiak 0 Sitka the Great Land -on the 0 Lower 48 states shows Sitka how vast it is. Travelers Port Heiden must plan accordingly. 0 Aniakchak Ketchikan National Park Service and affiliated areas 0 r---1 National Park o r National W ild and 1.-..-..J Na1 iona1 Monument • Scenic Rivers Alaska Public Lands ~ Cold Bay 1 Alag nak Information Center 0 2 Alatna l"'/FIC OC A i=.J National Preserve 3 Aniakchak 4 Charley National Historical 5 Chili kadrotna Park 6 John 7 Kobuk u na1aska 8 Mulchatna 0 0 Affiliated area 9 Noatak Aleutian World War II 10 Koyukuk (North Fork) National Hist oric Area 11 Salmon 12 Ti nayguk 13 Tlikakila 0 200 Kilometers D 200Mi/es Our Lasting Frontier Entering the American scene in 1867 as "Seward's Folly" did little to reveal the awe­ Claims to land by Alaska's Native people were similarly settled by Congress in 1971. After statehood and the settlement of Native land claims, the push to preserve more some character of a place early people called Alyeshka-the Great Land. The rush for Nearly 44 million acres of federal land and m-o-re-..th,_a_n......,.""9.;.6,_2,_m-i'"ll""io_n_w,,_e_r_e_a""w~a-r-d'e-d'i~n""'f.... in-a-;1 ,---.1-a-n-d..--c-o-n""ti,-n-u-e...,d"'", ...;c"-u-'1m~inc::.a::,.t.::in..cg..::;:.in"-1:.;.,9;.;8;,0;:....:wc;it~h-"p.::.a.:.;;s"'s"-a..:.g::.e;.;..;::.o_f; :;;tti;;,:.e~A:;.:la:....s:::.k:..:a~N,:::a.;ti;..:.o:..:n:.::a.,.cl ~ln:..;t:..:e:..:rec::.s..:.,t;:...L..:.a:..:n.::.d.:..:s=---- gold that follow ed created its own colorful images of derring-do and fortunes won and settlement of all Native c laims to land. Amid such rapid change our Last Frontier could Conservation Act. It established 10 new units of the National Park System and expand­ lost by scalawags. But the haunting beauty of the Far North at times overshadowed the easily slip away, as did our first. But the national interests in Alaska go beyond raw ed Glacier Bay, Katmai, and Mount McKinley (renamed " Denali"). The act more than miner's quest for gold. Dreams of quick riches often gave way to making peace with materials for industry and settlements of land claims. Vast unblemished landscapes doubled the size of the National Park System, which, in Alaska, now contains more than the land and settling in. and tumbling rivers fresh as creation are also treasures of our collective heritage. 54 million acres, or 13 percent of the state's 375 million acres. Ancient hearths, gravesites, and delicate stone tools of chert and jade tell of early The chronicles of explorers and naturalists are a strangely appealing mix of impres­ American peoples and their survival at the outer edge of human habitat. We, like the Alaskan in scale, with towering mountains, vast glaciers, wild rivers, and bountiful sions; a barren arctic wasteland teeming with herds of caribou; uninhabitable terrain pioneer travelers, find the abundant fish, wildlife, matchless scenery, unnamed moun­ wildlife, these parks also reflect the human values of the Last Frontier. The traditional that proved to be the ancestral homeland of cultures harkening back to the end of the tains, and numberless valleys beyond our wildest expectations. dependence by rural Alaskans on wildlife, fish, and plants continues in many park ice age; and winters of deadening cold giving way to balmy summers that warm vast areas. In addition to these subsistence provisions, national preserves allow the contin­ nurseries for migratory birds destined for every state and all continents of the world. Alaska abounds with the inspiring landscapes that fired our ancestors' spirits through uation of sport hunting and trapping. Alaska has the biggest moose, biggest bears, tallest spruce, rivers thick with salmon, risk and hardship on their westward trek. It also offers further test to a uniquely yet it is our nation's most fragile environment. Could all these descriptions come from American idea, born at Yellowstone in 1872, that certain places are special, above the The Alaska national parklands also protect a vast sweep of history, from the artifacts one state? The elusive character of Alaska is an important part of its appeal. Alaska marketplace, and worthy of lasting protection. The first national park area in Alaska of the f irst North Americans-found in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and other recalls an earlier time in our westward expansion when uncharted frontiers helped was established in 1910 at Sitka in commemoration of the Tlingit culture and early northwestern .Alaska national parklands-to the buildings and belongings of turn-of­ shape the American image. It recalls our sense of adventure and hardiness-in European settlers of Russian America. By the time Klondike Gold Rush National the-century g Id seekers in Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. For recre­ response to which progress and change have in fact moved northward to Alaska.
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