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Fact Sheets about Research and Resource Management

Engage in learning about research results by exploring Denali's resource fact sheets. Scroll down to view all the topics currently available (listed by category). Be sure to consider the entire list as some fact sheets contain information relevant to more than one category (e.g., The Rivers and Streams fact sheet summarizes the physical characteristics of types of rivers and streams, and also includes information about riparian vegetation and macroinvertebrates).

Physical Resources

Biological Resources

Cultural Resources and Subsistence

Social Science
Climate Change

Park Management Issues

Fact Sheets for Kids

 

List of Fact Sheets in Chronological Order of Production
(includes how to cite a fact sheet)

Physical Resources:

• Soil Survey and Ecological Classification
• Large Lakes and Landscape Limnology
• Rivers and Streams (4 pages)
• Ecology of Upwelling Areas in the Toklat River
• Stampede Creek and the Legacy of Mining: Antimony in Stream Water and Sediment
• Dinosaur Track Found in Denali
• Paleoecology of Denali's Dinosaurs
• Reconstructing Ecosystems of the Lower Cantwell
• Fossil Bird Diversity
• Air Quality Monitoring
• Soundscapes (2010 update)
• Young Scientists Measure Lake Ice and Snow at Horseshoe Lake
• Measuring Movements along the Denali Fault
• Mountain Building in the Alaska Range
• Earthquake Monitoring
• Studying the Active Boundary of Tectonic Plates
• Glacier Monitoring

Biological Resources:

• Large Mammals: How many are there? (2012 update)
• Population Biology of the Wood Frog
• Moose Surveys (2012 update about 2011 survey)
• Moose Rut
• Surveying Dall's Sheep Populations (2012 update)
• Wolf Monitoring 1986 - 2011 (2011 update)
• Ecology of Golden Eagles
• Beavers Across Denali's Hydrologic Landscape
• Wildland Fire Ecology
  
  2012 Natural History Information Tables
  (about habitat, food, weight, ages, young)
  Large Mammals
  Medium and Small Mammals
  

Cultural Resources and Subsistence:

• Preservation of Cultural Resources
• Painted Fossil Bison Skull
• Ice Patch Archeology
• Museum Collections: Preserving Denali's Stories
• Prehistoric Upland Hunting Site
• Subsistence
  

Visitor Characteristics and Social Science

• Understanding Park Visitor Characteristics
• Understanding and Managing Soundscapes
• Estimating Park Visitation
• Visitor Spending and the Local Economy
  

Climate Change:

• Monitoring Climate Change
• Climate-related Vegetation Change
• Permafrost Landscapes
• Treeline Shifts in Denali: Influences of Climate Change and Local Site Conditions
• Melting Glaciers in the Kichatna Mountains
• Permafrost Thaw and Carbon Balance
• How are Permafrost Landscapes Changing?
• Permafrost Thaw and the Nitrogen Cycle
• Learning about Climate Change from Ice Cores

Park Management Issues:

• Denali's Resource Stewardship Strategy
• The Status of Resource Stewardship in 2010: A Scorecard Approach to Reporting
• An Integrated Study of Park Road Capacity (2010, 2008, 2007, 2006 updates)
• Are Wolf Viewing Opportunities at Risk?
• Natural Resource Condition Assessment
• Central Alaska Network Inventory and Monitoring Program
• Wildland Fire Risk and Response: Why are you cutting those trees?
• Where is all that smoke coming from?
• Long-term Monitoring of Post-mining Stream Restoration in Kantishna
• Restoration of Mined Lands in Kantishna
• Monitoring Ecosystem Contaminants
• Tracking Crevassed Human Waste on Denali (revised in 2012)
• Aircraft Overflights Advisory Council

Fact Sheets for Kids

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