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PURPOSE: The deployment of a national missile defense (NMD) program in Alaska, California, Massachusetts, and North Dakota is considered. The NMD system would be a fixed, land-based, non-nuclear missile defense system with a land- and space-based detection system capable of responding to limited strategic ballistic missile threats to the United States. The proposed Alaskan sites include Clear Air Force Station (AFS) in Denali Borough, Eareckson Air Station (AS) on Shemya Island, Eielson Air Force Base (AFB) in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Fort Greely, and Yukon Training Area in Fairbanks North Star Borough. The proposed California site is Beale AFB. The proposed Massachusetts site is Cape Cod AFS. The proposed...
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There are comparatively few fossils that document the presence of the Pleistocene western camel (Camelops hesternus) in the unglaciated regions of Alaska and Yukon, northwestern North America (eastern Beringia). It has been previously reported on the basis of stratigraphic and radiocarbon data that this species was present within this region from the Sangamonian interglaciation (Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5) through the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, MIS 2). However, the continued presence of western camel through the LGM is at odds with its ecological preferences as inferred from more southerly parts of the continent. Here we report 43 new radiocarbon dates on 34 western camel fossils from Alaska and Yukon, including...
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A logical starting point for climate change adaptation in the forest sector is to proactlvely identify management practices and policies that have a higher likelihood of achieving management objectives across a wide range of potential climate futures. This should be followed by implementation of these options and monitoring their success in achieving management objectives within an adaptive management context. Here, we implement an approach to identify locally appropriate adaptation options by tapping into the experiential knowledge base of local forest practitioners while at the same time, building capacity within this community to implement the results. We engaged 30 forest practitioners who are involved with...
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In Canada, little is known about the governance of private protected areas (PPAs) and their contribution to the public interest. This dissertation evaluates the extent to which PPAs in Canada adhere to generally advanced principles of good governance---Direction, Legitimacy, Fairness, Performance and Accountability---and it assesses their contribution to the public interest. Findings from descriptive analysis of six case studies of Individual, Corporate, Non-Government and First Nation authorities indicate that principles are adhered to with relative vigor and visibility and that the public interest is generally advanced. The governance pattern is not strongly differentiated and it is generally uniform in strengths...
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Boreal regions contain more than half of the carbon in forested regions of the world and over 60% of the world's surface freshwater. Carbon storage and the flood control and water filtration provided by freshwaters and wetlands have recently been identified as the most important ecosystem services provided by boreal regions, with a value many times greater than current resource exploitation. Ecosystem services and sensitive ways of detecting their impairment have so far not been fully included in boreal conservation planning. Climate warming, via its effect on permafrost melting, insect damage, and forest fire, threatens to trigger large positive carbon feedbacks that may enhance the concentrations of greenhouse...
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Among the many recent developments explored in Canada's Changing North is the legal recognition of aboriginal rights by the Canadian state, which has led directly to significant increases in their political and economic power. It also examines how economic development, which has long focused on non-renewable natural resources, particularly minerals, has grown to an enormous scale. Development of arctic oil and gas, which hinges on world supplies and national and international politics, has meant major changes across the North. Some of the new national parks in the Canadian North are already under threat from mineral development. Northern tourism has made it possible for a wide variety of affluent visitors to visit...
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This project aimed to gain better understandings of northern Indigenous risk perception related to food safety and to identify the role that Indigenous knowledge (IK) plays in risk management processes to support more effective and culturally relevant benefit-risk (B-R) management strategies. The project used an exploratory qualitative case study design to investigate the role and place of IK in the management of environmental contaminants exposure via consumption of traditional foods in Yukon First Nations (YFNs). Forty-one semi-directive interviews with Traditional Food Knowledge Holders and Health and Environment Decision-makers were conducted. A review and analysis of organizational documents related to past...
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PURPOSE: The construction of transit-related improvements to develop transportation access and infrastructure at both the Northern and Southern areas of the Hatcher Pass Recreational Area located 55 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska is proposed. Hatcher Pass is a popular year-round recreational area in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough (MSB) that has experienced a steady annual increase in visitation numbers over the last decade and an increase of 34 percent between 2008 and 2009. Current recreational use of the areas includes Nordic and Alpine skiing, snowboarding, all-terrain vehicle and snowmobile use, mountain biking, hiking, mountain racing, sledding, hunting, horseback riding, berry picking, and paragliding. Both...
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The US Forest Service is responsible for restoring, sustaining, and enhancing forests and grasslands while providing and sustaining benefits to the American people. Because of these responsibilities, federal scientists and land managers are tasked with reducing the negative effects of climate change on ecosystem function and services, while promoting and enabling beneficial aspects (US Forest Service 2008, 2009).
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This dissertation is an exploration of forests as understood and encountered from numerous perspectives in the Yukon Territory. Dealing primarily with non-indigenous Yukon residents who hunt, trap, work, recreate within, and aim to protect Yukon forests, it addresses the origins and implications of diverse forest perspectives in Canada's north. This work is based primarily off of anthropological fieldwork that took place in the Yukon Territory in 2009. Methods included archival research, interviews and participant observation. As a means of exploring the origin of forest perspectives, the author focuses on four key areas: Yukon forest history and contemporary forest views that invoke forest history, different experiences...
map background search result map search result map Matanuska-Susitna Borough Wetlands Management Plan. Prepared for Matanuska-Susitna Borough Governance of private protected areas in Canada: Advancing the public interest? Integrated landscape management in Canada: getting from here to there Climate Change and Hazard Zonation in the Circum-Arctic Permafrost Regions Methods and tools for addressing natural disturbance dynamics in conservation planning for wilderness areas Generation of Priority Research Questions to Inform Conservation Policy and Management at a National Level HATCHER PASS RECREATIONAL AREA ACCESS, TRAILS, AND TRANSIT FACILITIES, HATCHER PASS, ALASKA. [Part 4 of 6] Application of Structured Decision Making to an Assessment of Climate Change Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Options for Sustainable Forest Management Canada's Changing North The role of Indigenous knowledge in environmental health risk management in Yukon, Canada Shades of Green: The social nature of Yukon forests NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE DEPLOYMENT; FORT GREELY, SHEMYA ISLAND, AND DENALI AND FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGHS, ALASKA, CALIFORNIA, MASSACHUSETTS, AND CAVALIER, GRAND FORKS, PEMBINA, RAMSEY, AND WALSH COUNTIES, NORTH DAKOTA Comprehensive conservation planning to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services in Canadian boreal regions under a warming climate and increasing exploitation Examining barriers and opportunities for sustainable adaptation to climate change in Interior Alaska Emissions of methane from northern peatlands: a review of management impacts and implications for future management options Bradley Lake Invasive Plant Management Plan Bradley Lake Invasive Plant Management Plan HATCHER PASS RECREATIONAL AREA ACCESS, TRAILS, AND TRANSIT FACILITIES, HATCHER PASS, ALASKA. [Part 4 of 6] Governance of private protected areas in Canada: Advancing the public interest? Application of Structured Decision Making to an Assessment of Climate Change Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Options for Sustainable Forest Management Matanuska-Susitna Borough Wetlands Management Plan. Prepared for Matanuska-Susitna Borough Shades of Green: The social nature of Yukon forests Examining barriers and opportunities for sustainable adaptation to climate change in Interior Alaska Emissions of methane from northern peatlands: a review of management impacts and implications for future management options The role of Indigenous knowledge in environmental health risk management in Yukon, Canada Integrated landscape management in Canada: getting from here to there Canada's Changing North Climate Change and Hazard Zonation in the Circum-Arctic Permafrost Regions Methods and tools for addressing natural disturbance dynamics in conservation planning for wilderness areas Comprehensive conservation planning to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services in Canadian boreal regions under a warming climate and increasing exploitation Generation of Priority Research Questions to Inform Conservation Policy and Management at a National Level NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE DEPLOYMENT; FORT GREELY, SHEMYA ISLAND, AND DENALI AND FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGHS, ALASKA, CALIFORNIA, MASSACHUSETTS, AND CAVALIER, GRAND FORKS, PEMBINA, RAMSEY, AND WALSH COUNTIES, NORTH DAKOTA