Caption: (Top) My first hunt on the
Alaska Peninsula back in 2009 resulted in this nine-foot-plus brown bear.
Note that Dumond (2016:401) does not seem to accept such an early start date for the Norton in Southwest Alaska; instead, he places the start date at about 2500 cal BP there and closer to 2300 cal BP on the
Alaska Peninsula. However, early Norton dates ranging from 2800 to 2600 cal BP (Table 2)--contemporaneous with those from the Choris type site and Onion Portage (Giddings and Anderson, 1986; Anderson, 1988)--are also found at the interior lake sites of the Raleigh Knoll and Curtis sites (Shaw, 1989) and at Summit Island in Bristol Bay (M.
The majority of the
Alaska Peninsula is dominated by alpine tundra, heath meadow, grassland, willow and alder communities, and barrens.
The 80-mile ferry trip from Homer to Illianna Bay would discourage many, for this stretch of water across Cook Inlet can get very rough." (125) In 1969, the Alaska state highway department conducted a study of a proposed "highway across the
Alaska Peninsula from Cook Inlet to King Salmon...
Juveniles were concentrated along the outer shelf and in the vicinity of the
Alaska Peninsula, but were largely absent from the middle shelf, which was characterized by cold pool bottom temperatures (<2[degrees]C).
Fish & Wildlife Service
Alaska Peninsula and Becharof National Wildlife Refuges and the Alaska Department of Fish & Game.
Only an estimated 70,000 remain out of the 200,000 that once wintered along the
Alaska Peninsula. New survival data, now being compiled, is not expected to change the picture.
Populations from southern Bristol Bay were intermediate between the two major lineages, and all populations from the
Alaska Peninsula south and east to Washington State were identified as the second major lineage (Fig.
Red king crab were caught in a majority of the fishing attempts, and the crab ranged from Yakutat, through the Gulf of Alaska, and along the south and north sides of the
Alaska Peninsula (FWS, 1942).
Moose were specifically mentioned in 8 refuges: Kenai,
Alaska Peninsula, Innoko, Kanuti, Koyukuk, Nowitna, Tetlin, and Yukon Flats.
Plus, his house in Homer, Ala., overlooks three steaming volcanoes on the
Alaska Peninsula, two of which have erupted on him.
"I don't think bears on the
Alaska peninsula are endangered in any way," says Stonorov, "but this land was set aside to preserve high concentrations of brown bears, and I don't think the Park Service is managing the land in the spirit it was intended.