- State: AK
- NPCA Region: Alaska
- Est. Date: 1980
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Experience the Arctic Circle on American soil at Kobuk Valley National Park—one of the most remote places in the park system. With no roads or facilities of any kind within the park, traveling here requires special planning and advanced backcountry experience—but the rewards are literally huge. See vast, pristine, awe-inspiring landscapes, including three major sand dune systems covering more than 20,000 acres.
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Northwest Alaska: ‘Vast, Beautiful and Resilient.’ Let’s Keep It That Way.
As the Bureau of Land Management reevaluates its permit for the Ambler mining road in Alaska, here are 6 things to know about the possible road’s impact on the Alaskan…
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Parks in the Arctic
Alaska is home to nearly two-thirds of the land in the entire National Park System — some 54 million acres in all. But only four U.S. national park sites lie…
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Read more about Alaska Officials Use Pandemic to Transfer Funds for Mining Road
Blog Post Alaska Officials Use Pandemic to Transfer Funds for Mining Road The misappropriation of $35 million in state funding to help small and medium-sized businesses could instead support construction of a 211-mile road through the wildest national park landscape in America.
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Read more about Protecting an Amazing Migration
Blog Post Protecting an Amazing Migration A proposed mining road would cut through national park land critical to one of the longest land migrations on Earth and harm communities that depend on Arctic caribou for food.
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Read more about Protecting the Value of Wild Places
Blog Post Protecting the Value of Wild Places Alaska is home to some of the last untamed landscapes in the country — but a proposed mining road could forever slice through part of the Brooks Range and harm two Arctic parks.
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