The Wilderness Society, Meek Mariah, Belote Russell Travis, Fullman Timothy, Leppi Jason, Peter McKinley, Meda DeWitt, Kayla Heidenreich, Christi Heun, Laura Nunes, Martha Reynolds, Lisa Rotterman, Nick Underwood, Nils Warnock
In this technical report, we first summarize the NPR-A background, including the history of its formation and current land management, as well as a description of the physical and biological features contained within the NPR-A. We then provide technical information about several groups of sensitive species that rely on the NPR-A: caribou, Arctic fishes, shorebirds and loons, tundra vegetation, wolverines, moose, and polar bears. Next, we provide information about the importance and history of Indigenous science and lifeways within the NPR-A. We finish with information about the landscape value of the NPR-A when considering ecosystem intactness, wildness, soil carbon storage, and terrestrial ecosystem representation. This report by no means includes an exhaustive covering of the values found in the NPR-A to both humans and non-humans, yet provides technical information based on our many years of expertise and experience working in this critical area of the Arctic.
