Noatak National Preserve

The Noatak National Preserve is a nature reserve under the management of the National Park Service in Alaska northeast of Kotzebue sound that is framed by the Baird and De Long Mountains of the Brooks Range.

Under protection, the catchment area of the Noatak River, this is the last untouched by human influence river system in the United States. The area is the transition zone from arctic to subarctic climate and consists mostly of tundra. Moose, grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, arctic foxes, lemmings, and Dall sheep have their habitat here. Large herds of caribou roam the reserve.

In the south of the Preserve is adjacent to the Kobuk Valley National Park and on the east by the Gates -of -the- Arctic National Park. 23,332 km ², almost the entire surface of the protected area with the exception of the region surrounding the site are Noatak, under the name of Noatak Wilderness, designated as wilderness area, the strictest class of natural protected areas of the United States.

The reserve was established on 1 December 1978 as a National Monument. On 2 December 1980, the status of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act was changed to that of a National Preserves.

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