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Article: Wilderness homeland.
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- National Parks
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Eighty percent of 8.4-million-acre Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve is designated wilderness--a wilderness where animals and indigenous people have co-existed for thousands of years. Ensuring that both the park's wild character and its indigenous people's use of park resources remains compatible with wilderness preservation is a major challenge facing the Park Service.
In 1929, when Robert Marshall first arrived in Alaska, much of the Central Brooks Range appeared as blank spots on maps of the territory. This sweeping chain of mountains arcing east-west across the full breadth of northern Alaska inspired Marshall's wilderness-preservation vision and ...