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Fact Sheets about Research and Resource Management

Two-page illustrated summaries of many topics are currently available. Scroll down to view topics 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 provides a summary of the physical characteristics of types of rivers and streams, and also includes information about riparian vegetation and macroinvertebrates).

Physical Resources

Biological Resources

Cultural Resources

Climate Change

Park Management Issues

Physical Resources:

• Soil Survey and Ecological Classification
• Large Lakes and Landscape Limnology
• Soundscapes
• Rivers and Streams (4 pages)
• Dinosaur Track Found in Denali
• Paleoecology of Denali's Dinosaurs (2008 update)
• Reconstructing Ecosystems of the Lower Cantwell
• Stampede Creek and the Legacy of Mining: Antimony in Stream Water and Sediment
• Ecology of Upwelling Areas in the Toklat River
• Air Quality Monitoring 

Biological Resources:

• Large Mammals: How many are there? (2009 update)
• Population Biology of the Wood Frog
• Moose Surveys
• Surveying Dall's Sheep Populations
• Wolf Monitoring 1986 - 2009
• Beavers Across Denali's Hydrologic Landscape 

Cultural Resources:

• Painted Fossil Bison Skull

Climate Change:

• Monitoring Climate Change
• Climate-related Vegetation Change
• Permafrost Landscapes
• Treeline Shifts in Denali: Influences of Climate Change and Local Site Conditions 

Park Management Issues:

• An Integrated Study of Park Road Capacity (2008, 2007, 2006 information and updates)
• Denali's Resource Stewardship Strategy
• Central Alaska Network Inventory and Monitoring Program
• Wildland Fire Risk and Response: Why are you cutting those trees?