Knowledges that 'travel': Indigenous-Western expertise and the 'nature' of wildlife management in the Alaskan boreal forest

In partnership with the community of Huslia, Alaska, I analyzed both the practices of wildlife biology and Koyukon traditional management practices for two species whose distributions include the Koyukuk-Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge Complex: moose (Alces alces gigas ) and greater white-fronted geese (Anser albifrons frontalis ). Both species are important for subsistence and sport hunting, but their ranges and migrations necessitate different scales and structures of management. Moose require state-wide cooperation, while geese also require national and international scales of management. Using ethnographies of scientific practice, observation, and semi-structured interviews, I explain how different groups of...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: A1-Native-Aboriginal Ways, Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge

Corrected Fire Perimeters of Alaska's National Wildlife Refuges

This data package includes 481 geospatial vector polygons of historic fire perimeters associated with National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska. These polygons, originally held within the Alaska Large Fire Database (ALFD), were reviewed and found to have geospatial inaccuracies with respect to the fire they represent. They were corrected and updated based on a variety of remote sensing resources; the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) database (https://www.mtbs.gov/viewer/index.html), geospatial rasters of historic fire activity derived from Landsat 1-9 imagery in the Google Earth Engine(https://earthengine.google.com) environment, and historical air photos acquired through EarthExplorer (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/)....

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alaska, Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Becharof National Wildlife Refuge, Disturbance, All tags... Environment, Fires, Forestry, Habitat alteration and disturbance, Innoko National Wildlife Refuge, Izembeck National Wildlife Refuge, Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge, Land Use / Land Cover, Land Use Change, Landsat, Landscape, Landscape Processes, Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge, Remote Sensing, Remote sensing, Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildland fire, Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Fewer tags

Summary of the draft revised comprehensive conservation plan: Koyukuk, Northern Unit Innoko, and Nowitna National Wildlife Refuges

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: A1-US Refuges, Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge

Alaska Landbird Monitoring Survey Dataset

Boreal Partners in Flight developed the Alaska Landbird Monitoring Survey (ALMS) primarily to monitor breeding populations of landbirds in the vast off-road areas of Alaska in conjunction with data collected from the roadside North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). ALMS is a collaborative program in which agencies and other entities conduct standardized surveys of breeding birds and their habitats on the lands they manage and then provide the data to the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center for analysis and archiving. The ALMS monitoring program comprises a set of survey blocks that have been selected in a stratified-random design primarily across state and Federal natural resource lands in Alaska with...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Admiralty Island, Alaska, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge, All tags... Andreafsky Wilderness, Animal and plant census, Animals/vertebrates, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Biodiversity, Biogeography, Biota, Bird behavior, Birds, Chugach National Forest, Chugach State Park, Copper River Census Area, Copper River Delta Fish and Wildlife Management Area, Cranes and allies, Denali National Park and Preserve, Denali State Park, Detection distance, Ducks/geese/swans, Eagle/falcons/hawks and allies, East Fork Skagway River, Ecology, Ecology, Environment, Environmental conditions, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Field inventory and monitoring, Fort Greely, Grebes, Habitats, Herons/egrets and allies, Innoko National Wildlife Refuge, James Dalton Mountain, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, Kenai Wilderness, Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge, Koyukuk River, Loons, Migratory birds, Mitkof Island, Mount Fairplay, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, Natlaratlen River, North Slope Borough, Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge, Ornithology, Perching Birds, Resident birds, Sandpipers, Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, South Baranof Wilderness, Spatial distribution, Taku Glacier, Terrestrial ecosystems, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Tongass National Forest, Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Waders/gulls/auks and allies, Wildlife, Wildlife Biology, Fewer tags