Natural Resource Condition Assessments for Cape Krusenstern National Monument

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The Natural Resource Condition Assessment (NRCA) Program provides framework, funding, and publishing support to parks to aid in the synthesis and documentation of natural resource conditions. Condition assessment reports are a tool to describe selected park resources, record a snapshot of their current condition, identify trends in condition, and determine potential or current threats and stressors. Understanding the condition and trend of natural resources is key for parks and NPS planners to appropriately prioritize and allocate stewardship resources.

 

An aerial view of Cape Krusenstern beach ridges.

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Located in Northwest Alaska, Cape Krusenstern National Monument protects approximately 560,000 acres of coastal plain comprised of large lagoons and tundra backed by rolling limestone hills. It also protects a series of more than 100 beach ridges, mounds of sediment formed along the shoreline over thousands of years and used by Indigenous peoples for their hunting camps. These ridges document over 5,000 years of use by the Inupiaq people who continue to use this area today. Visitors to the park travel by plane or boat in summer, and plane or snow machine in winter.

Links to NRCA Products
Materials produced by the park and the NRCA Program.

For other reports and natural resource datasets visit the NPS Data Store.

Source: NPS DataStore Collection 7765 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the NPS DataStore.