Identifies developed backcountry trails within Denali NP. Most trails are located within the park frontcountry. The vast majority of the park backcountry is trail-less. A number of trails, however have been developed within the developed portions of the park for visitor use.

This vector polygon dataset represents the current gross extent of Congressionally-designated wilderness for the National Park Service, Alaska Region. The Congressionally-designated wilderness boundaries defined in this dataset are external wilderness unit boundaries. They do not exclude lands (e.g. inholdings) that fail to meet the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) definition for "public lands" (i.e. Public Law 96-487, 94 Statute 2371, Title I, Section 102(3 A-C), December 1980).

Survey units from the 1993 moose survey in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve

Survey units from the 1993 moose survey in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve

This dataset represents the boundaries/extents of BLM National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) units within Alaska and includes the following: Iditarod National Historic Trail, Wild and Scenic Rivers and Corridors, Steese National Conservation Area, and Central Arctic Management Area (CAMA) Wilderness Study Area (WSA).

Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge (YKF NWR) and Koyukuk NWR (KUK NWR), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), initiated a project with the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center to acquire map products needed for moose habitat assessment. The objective of this work was to create a suite of products which included: Estimated Vegetation Heights, probability of Willow Estimates, and Vegetation Type Maps. These products are based on spectral characteristics found in bands 2 through 7 of Landsat 8 OLI scenes processed to surface reflectance, acquired in summer of 2013, and late winter of 2014. Training data was collected by fixed wing aircraft and helicopter by USFWS refuge staff, and extrapolated by the methods described. This project, “ Yukon Flats NWR willow mapping” (PI: Delia Vargas Kretsinger) was funded through the USFWS Inventory and Monitoring program via an Interagency Agreement between the USGS EROS and the USFWS – Alaska Regional Office. The data products are provisional in nature and are intended to support USFWS land management decisions. These data have not been validated with independent test data but received favorable qualitative assessment by local field experts.

Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge (YKF NWR) and Koyukuk NWR (KUK NWR), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), initiated a project with the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center to acquire map products needed for moose habitat assessment. The objective of this work was to create a suite of products which included: Estimated Vegetation Heights, probability of Willow Estimates, and Vegetation Type Maps. These products are based on spectral characteristics found in bands 2 through 7 of Landsat 8 OLI scenes processed to surface reflectance, acquired in summer of 2013, and late winter of 2014. Training data was collected by fixed wing aircraft and helicopter by USFWS refuge staff, and extrapolated by the methods described. This project, “ Yukon Flats NWR willow mapping” (PI: Delia Vargas Kretsinger) was funded through the USFWS Inventory and Monitoring program via an Interagency Agreement between the USGS EROS and the USFWS – Alaska Regional Office. The data products are provisional in nature and are intended to support USFWS land management decisions. These data have not been validated with independent test data but received favorable qualitative assessment by local field experts.