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NSSI Scenarios Final Reports: Prioritizing Science Needs Through Participatory Scenarios for Energy and Resource Development on the North Slope and Adjacent Seas.
This record contains reports produced by the North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI) scenario project. The following reports can be downloaded using the links below:... -
NPR-A Caribou Subsistence Harvest Documentation
Documents the annual subsistence harvest of caribou by residents of Nuiqsut, Barrow and Atqasuk for a five year period, including locational information on harvest and in-depth... -
Decision for Steller's Eider Reintroduction
The purpose of this document is to describe the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s (FWS) evaluation of the Steller’s Eider Reintroduction Program (SERP), share the input... -
Assessment of the Punyik Point site
Punyik Point is one of the most significant archaeological sites on the North Slope. Assessment work at this site produced previously unknown findings - the presence of... -
Glaucous Gulls in NPR-A
This project has two main components, (1) to document the diet of Glaucous Gulls and (2) to document the movements of gulls to help interpret results of the diet section. -
Teshekpuk Lake Fish Habitat
Identifies critical, high-use habitat for fish in and around Teshekpuk Lake -
Tundra Nesting Bird Surveys
Breeding ecology and limiting factors of tundra nesting birds in Prudhoe Bay area and near the Canning River Delta. -
Inventory and monitoring of snow goose colony at the Ikpikpuk River Delta
Inventory and monitoring of snow goose colony at the Ikpikpuk River Delta. -
North Slope Rapid Ecological Assessment (REA)
In 2010, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) initiated seven Rapid Ecoregional Assessments (REAs) to help understand the condition of western landscapes. These assessments help... -
Earth Cover Classification - Dalton Highway - Report and GIS Raster
BLM and Ducks Unlimited (DU) cooperatively mapped a study area along the Dalton Highway using portions of four Landsat TM scenes (1999-2001) and classified 43 earth cover... -
Earth Cover Classification - National Petroleum Reserve Alaska - Report and GIS Raster
Eight Landsat TM and three SPOT satellite scenes were used to determine earth cover categories for this 9,300,000 hectare (23,000,000 acre) study area. Seven major classes and... -
Habitat Use and Population Status of Yellow-billed and Pacific Loons within the North Slope
The link below provides data and reports relevant to the assessment of Yellow-Billed loons on Alaska's North Slope as provided by the USGS. -
BLM NPRA Integrated Activity Plan (2020) and Special Areas
Link to BLM eplanning website with Integrated Activity Plan (IAP) documents for the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (NPR-A). Shapefiles can be downloaded that represent the... -
NPR-A Fisheries Monitoring Implementation Plan
A primary purpose for the development of this monitoring plan was to support the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) national mission of... -
Water Resources of the Colville River Special Area NPR_A
In July 2000, the BLM began a systematic inventory of the water resources of the Colville River Special Area, as recommended by the Record of Decision for the Northeast National... -
Breeding bird diversity, density, nesting success and nest predators in the region of the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area – 2008
Assessing nesting biology and nesting success of tundra-nesting birds in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area of the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska -
Cultural & Paleontological surveys in NPRA
Only a small portion of the NPRA has been systematically surveyed for the presence of cultural & paleontological resources. At present this work is primarily being... -
Temporal Distributions and Patterns of Habitat Use by Waterfowl in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area
Provide baseline data for detection and/or measurement of disturbance of brant; 2-phased approach; radio telemetry and repeated aerial surveys; will determine movements and... -
Excavation of the Mesa Site and paleoecological reconstruction of the regional terminal Pleistocene environment
Data collection and analysis of the earliest known human occupation and exploitation of the North Slope. To understand how these ancient people lived, the environment and... -
Workshop on Design Concerns for Studies Focused on the Influence of Oil/Gas Development on Nest Success of Shorebirds
Predator population size and/or productivity is inferred to be higher in the oil fields than in undeveloped portions of the North Slope. Project provided the design for a...
