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People
and the Land of Denali National Park: Background
   
From
left to right: Berry Photo, Copyright Julie Collins. Fish Camp Photo,
Copyright Percy Duyck. Fish drying, NPS Photo. Mining cabin in Denali,
Copyright National Park Service.
Most
visitors to Denali today come to see the famed Mt. McKinley and
the park's wildlife. However, from the earliest times humans have
been seasonally attracted to Denali's remote and elevated country
because of the concentrations of wildlife and resources near the
Alaska Range. Archeological sites in and adjacent to the park and
preserve document Native occupation and use for as long as 11,000
years. Later explorers, miners, rangers and finally today's tourists
also came to this beautiful remote park. What did these different
people have in common and how did their use of the land differ?
We'll explore this question and more in this unit.
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Unit Outline Part I >
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