Conservation GIS Center - Arctic Related Maps


		Featured Map: Debunking the "2,000-Acre" Footprint Series What we can do! May we make a map for you? We Thank Our Sponsors and Funders.		The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) comprises 19.8 million acres in the northeast corner of Alaska, adjoining Ivvavik and Vuntui National Parks in the Yukon Territory, Canada. The Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the Arctic NWR, calls it "the only conservation system unit that protects, in an undisturbed condition, a complete spectrum of the arctic ecosystems in North America." Much of the debate, recent and in past decades, has focused on the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain, the northernmost part of the Arctic NWR. This is the area that the new Administration would like to open for exploration. Although its 1.5 million acres comprise only eight percent of the Arctic NWR, it represents a crucial calving ground for the Porcupine caribou herd. Caribou scientists indicated that female caribou in contact with North Slope oil activities experience a decline in productivity and their concentrated calving areas have been displaced from the oil fields. The Conservation GIS Center aids in promoting the protection of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Arctic Region through mapping and spatial analysis. Arctic Maps Debunking the 2000 Acre Myth Selected Wildlife on the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Boundary NPRA and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Porcupine Caribou Herd Birth Place and Nursery Grounds Oil Development in the Arctic Proposed Nuiqsut Road Oil Development 2003 Oil Development Over Time 1968-1999 Alpine Oil Field Complex Protected 5 percent of America's Arctic Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Wells *New* Current and Proposed Oil and Gas Leasing Additional Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Information Fish Birds Caribou Muskoxen Polar Bears Grizzly Bears Marine Mammals Impacts of Oil Exploration Myths and Facts of "2,000-Acres Foorprint" Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area, Petroleum Assessment, 1998 Summary Note: Feel free to print and distribute maps as long as Conservation GIS Center is credited with production of maps. Contact the Center for hardcopies.
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