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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Alaska North Slope
		It may be that the Inupiat of the North Slope Region require 10 times the space as rural settlers; and, it may be that these settlers require 10 times the space as their urban counterparts.
		North Slope civilization depends on native cultures for vitality, and those cultures depend on wilderness for their context and imagery.
		The Alaska North Slope is the region of Alaska in the United States located on the northern slope of the Brooks Range along the coast of the Arctic Ocean.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alaska-North-Slope (238 words)

	Alaska's North Slope, Fall of the Wild - National Geographic Magazine
		Some 15 million acres (6 million hectares) in the middle of the slope, including the lucrative oil fields, are owned by the state.
		With substantial communal lands on the slope, the 5,000 Inupiat scattered among seven remote villages and the town of Barrow stand to become the newest oil barons of the 21st century.
		As is true of many of the tiny villages within the North Slope Borough, most of its residents now live in colorful cookie-cutter HUD houses and enjoy indoor plumbing, a diesel-fueled power plant to keep the lights and TVs on, a modern school, clinic, and fire trucks.
	www7.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0605/feature1/index.html (551 words)

	Alaska Wilderness
		The North Slope Region is subject to disturbance of the tundra permafrost; the permafrost keeps the water in the active zone, where it can be used by animals.
		It may be that the Inupiat of the North Slope Region require 10 times the space as rural settlers; and, it may be that these settlers require 10 times the space as their urban counterparts.
		North Slope civilization depends on native cultures for vitality, and those cultures depend on wilderness for their context and imagery.
	www.uidaho.edu /e-journal/pan_eco/alaskaplan.html (10100 words)

	Overview of BP Alaska North Slope Pipeline Operations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The North Slope currently has an estimated total reserves remaining in place of about 42 billion barrels of oil and 52.8 trillion cubic feet of gas.
		As part of its ongoing inspection program on the North Slope, BP each year inspects about 100,000 locations on pipelines in Prudhoe Bay, including 60,000 locations for internal corrosion and 40,000 locations for external corrosion.
		The frequency of pigging is specific to each pipeline and varies significantly across the North Slope and the industry.
	www.bp.com /genericarticle.do?categoryId=9012574&contentId=7025850 (664 words)

	Native Experience - A story of industrial impact on Native culture in the Arctic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Before the North Slope was visited by white whalers from America or Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Inupiat Eskimos killed the bowhead using harpoons with stone spearheads and long lances made of wood or bone.
		But before the oil companies could bring North Slope crude to market, it was necessary to build a 850 mile pipeline from Prudhoe Bay in the north to the ice free port of Valdez in the south, from where it could be shipped to refineries in the lower 48 states.
		The IWC decision to issue a zero quota for bowhead whaling on the North Slope was to a great extent based on the arguments of environmental organisations, which stated that the bowhead whale population had declined to a point where the threat of extinction was very real.
	www.channel6.dk /native/articles/Page307.htm (10112 words)

	Experts Conclude Oil Drilling Has Hurt Alaska's North Slope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Some of the problems could last for centuries, the experts said in a report yesterday, both because environmental damage does not heal easily in the area's harsh climate and because it is uneconomical to remove structures or restore damaged areas once drilling is over.
		President Bush and many Republicans in Congress and Alaska lawmakers from both parties are pushing this year for legislation that would open the coastal plain of the refuge to development.
		The North Slope is a windswept, Minnesota-size region — bereft of trees but brimming with wildlife — that runs from the peaks of the Brooks Range north to the Arctic Ocean.
	colossus.chem.umass.edu /chandler/ch111/Oil_Alaska.htm (854 words)

	Alaska's North Slope producers propose building natural gas pipeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Alaska's three largest North Slope oil producers are proposing to build a pipeline to bring North America's largest natural gas reserves to the lower 48 states.
		The North Slope has an estimated 35 trillion cubic feet of known gas resources, and perhaps 100 to 200 trillion cubic feet yet to be found.
		North Slope producers currently reinject the natural gas that comes with oil production back into the ground where it can be recovered.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/12/16/financial0005EST0003.DTL (432 words)

	Alaska North Slope on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		or Arctic North Slope, region, N Alaska, sloping from the Brooks Range N to the Arctic Ocean.
		A 2003 National Research Council report on drilling concluded that lasting environmental damage had resulted because the harsh climate slows natural recovery and because there is little incentive to restore areas where drilling has ceased.
		North Slope communities are abusing NPR-A grants, Fairbanks senator says.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/AlaskaN1o.asp (284 words)

	Hovercraft Alaska: Alaska North Slope
		This region of Alaska is the most northern section of the United States of America.
		The brooks Range that is located inteh southern part of this region is the last of the mountain ranges in North American continent.
		From those rugged mountains north to the Arctic Ocean it is flat and covered mainly in tundra.
	www.hovercraftalaska.com /mainpages/AlaskaPages/ns.html (278 words)

	Oil Boreholes Hold the Permafrost Record of Alaska's North Slope, Alaska Science Forum
		The DEW Line was a chain of 63 radar and communications stations stretching 3,000 miles from the northwest coast of Alaska to the eastern coast of Greenland.
		In 1986, Arthur Lachenbruch used data from the northern boreholes to reveal in the journal Science that permafrost on the North Slope had been warming in the range of 2-to-4 degrees C during the last several decades.
		On the North Slope, permafrost ranges in thickness from about 700 to as much as 2,240 feet thick, and may be as cold as minus 8 to minus 10 degrees C. South of the Yukon River, permafrost is much thinner and is often within one-to-two degrees below thawing temperatures.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF15/1590.html (698 words)

	Arctic Refuge:Oil and Gas Issues
		During World War II, the entire North Slope of Alaska - 48.8 million acres - was withdrawn from entry under the public land laws and thus held for exclusive use by the U.S. government for military purposes.
		The majority of the tan area north of the Continental Divide was ultimately selected by the State under the Alaska Statehood Act (1959) or Native Corporations established by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971), and most of it is therefore available for oil and gas leasing.
		While the physical "footprint" of the existing North Slope oil facilities and roads covers about 10,000 acres, that current industrial complex sprawls across an 800 square mile region, extending nearly 100 miles from east to west, and it continues to grow as new oil fields are developed.
	arcticcircle.uconn.edu /ANWR/anwr_fws.htm (4154 words)

	ESRI News - Fall 1999 ArcNews -- Alaska's North Slope Borough Brings GIS to Bear
		The North Slope Borough (NSB), Alaska, was one of the first in the world to use GIS in a local government's decision making process.
		This daunting task (the North Slope NSB spans an area of approximately 89,000 square miles, all of it in the high Arctic) was made even more difficult by first establishing the GIS program in Anchorage, Alaska, and 10 years later moving the entire operation to Barrow, Alaska, approximately 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
		Native Allotments Project--The NSB/GIS coordinated with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to automate the North Slope native allotment Master Title Plats and to compile the associated land records from the BLM and the Bureau of Indian Affairs databases.
	www.esri.com /news/arcnews/fall99articles/31-alaska.html (917 words)

	A Timeline of Alaska, 1900 to the Present
		The Alaska Road Commission is formed under U.S. Army jurisdiction.1906 Alaska Native Allotment Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to allot homesteads to the Alaska Natives (Aleuts were included in 1956).
		Alaska starts to feel a recession: many lose their jobs and leave the state, banks foreclose on property and business go bankrupt.
		State of Alaska, was brought by the Alaska Civil Liberties Union, the Native American Rights Fund and the North Slope Borough on behalf of 27 individuals whose constitutional rights would be violated if the English-only initiative were allowed to take effect on March 4.
	www.commonwealthnorth.org /studygroup/timeline1900s.html (3136 words)

	New USGS Oil & Gas Assessment Of Central North Slope, Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		There is estimated to be 37 TCF of undiscovered natural gas in the central North Slope, with the majority located in the southern half of the assessment area in the foothills of the Brooks Range.
		The natural gas resources in the central North Slope are accessible to existing infrastructure and to the route of the proposed gas pipeline.
		The central North Slope lies between the NPRA and ANWR, and extends from the Brooks Range northward to the State-Federal offshore boundary.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/06/050619195534.htm (777 words)

	Map: "Drilling It All" On Alaska’s North Slope
		The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the only place on the North Slope of Alaska that remains legally closed to exploration and development.
		In 1999, Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt opened 4.6 million acres in the northeast section of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska on the North Slope.
		The state of Alaska is pursuing an aggressive lease sale program under what it calls "Areawide" leasing on state lands and waters on Alaska's North Slope.
	www.wilderness.org /Library/Documents/AlaskaNorthSlopeDrilling.cfm (783 words)

	Muskox of the Yukon & Alaska North Slope Fact Sheet #1: Muskox History
		Muskox were found on the Yukon and Alaskan North Slope until the middle of the 1800's when they disappeared.
		Muskox were re-introduced to the North Slope in Alaska in 1969 with the transplant of 51 animals from Greenland to Nunivak Island.
		There are approximately 500 muskox on the Alaska North Slope, 190 on the Yukon North Slope, 110 in the NWT west of the Mackenzie River and an additional 30 muskox in the Yukon south towards Old Crow.
	www.taiga.net /wmac/species/muskox/factsheet1_history.html (754 words)

	Alaska North Slope Gas Study Group Charge
		Contribute to the policymaking process by participation in state and federal, executive and legislative efforts relative to commercialization of North Slope natural gas.
		If the benefit assessment allows Commonwealth North to take a position as to which proposed commercialization alternative is on balance in the best interest of the people of Alaska.
		If we educate Commonwealth North members and the public regarding how the benefits to the State are affected by each proposed gas commercialization alternative and as to what influences are likely to impact the decision.
	www.commonwealthnorth.org /gascharge.html (443 words)

	Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Alaskan North Slope operators continue to press efforts to bolster oil flow from currently producing fields in the province, notably giants Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk River.
		This is occurring against a backdrop of an improving political climate at the federal and state levels for the future of North Slope production.
		North Slope operators also have programs aimed at developing marginal fields and sustaining exploration.
	www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=69957 (194 words)

	Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Indigenous Mining Campaign Project
		Alaska Native villages in the North Slope region are expressing their concerns.
		A map of the North Slope shows that millions of acres surrounding the Refuge are dotted by oil-producing fields.
		Throughout Alaska, in exchange for extinguishing native title to 90% of their lands, tribes were given what amounted to less than $3 per acre.
	www.ienearth.org /mining_campaign2.html (7927 words)

	CRS Report RL33629 - BP Alaska North Slope Pipeline Shutdowns: Regulatory Policy Issues - NLE Abstract
		Abstract: On August 6, 2006, BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc. (BP) announced the shutdown of the Prudhoe Bay area oil field on the North Slope of Alaska to conduct major repairs following the discovery of severe corrosion and a small spill from a Prudhoe Bay oil pipeline.
		The Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-468) mandates the promulgation of new regulations covering the types of pipelines used by BP on the North Slope, among other provisions.
		BP executives have admitted to the inadequacy of the companyâs maintenance program for its North Slope pipeline operations.
	www.ncseonline.org /NLE/CRS/abstract.cfm?NLEid=1696 (483 words)

	pogo.org Alaska North Slope and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field Project On Government Oversight
		BP Alaska is facing new charges concerning pipeline corrosion and federal investigators say the charges will become part of an ongoing investigation.
		Richard Woolam, the former head of pipeline maintenance for BP's North Slope operations, refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing last September.
		Warnings by a Seattle-based engineering firm about problems with BP's monitoring of its Alaska oil pipelines were significantly toned down after the company complained that the report was "extremely negative," according to documents now under review by a federal grand jury.
	www.pogo.org /p/environment/AlaskanPipeline.html (1415 words)

	Communications News: Videoconferencing on Alaska's north slope
		Videoconferencing is meeting the challenge of providing a varied curriculum in the nation's geographically largest and northernmost school district.
		Alaska's North Slope Borough School District (NSBSD) serves 1,820 students in eight villages spanning 88,000 square miles (roughly the size of the state of Minnesota) entirely above the Arctic Circle.
		More importantly, students of the NSBSD are provided with excellent learning opportunities in spite of the distances that separate schools on Alaska's North Slope.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0CMN/is_n2_v30/ai_13454286 (836 words)

	Tundra an Early Riser Under North Slope Snow, Alaska Science Forum
		Researchers working on Alaska's north slope recently found that tundra plants begin photosynthesis while still covered with snow.
		Toolik Field Station is just north of the Brooks Range, in the treeless foothills and plains of Alaska's arctic.
		Starr estimated that the North Slope tundra could be sucking up 15 percent more carbon dioxide than scientists thought.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF15/1514.html (682 words)

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	Alaska North Slope 100 m Digital Elevation Model (DEM) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This data set is a 100-m resolution digital elevation model (DEM) for the Brooks Range and the North Slope of Alaska.
		The DEM was created by merging 100 National Elevation Dataset DEM tiles for areas of Alaska north of 67 degrees north latitude.
		The resulting DEM is in the Alaska Albers conical equal area projection, using the North American Datum of 1927 (NAD27).
	arcss.colorado.edu /data/arcss301.html (142 words)

	People - Statement by Mayor Benjamin P. Nageak on ANWR Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Inupiat people of the North Slope have called the Arctic their home for thousands of years.
		Long before the riches of this land and its seas were "discovered" by outside cultures, the Inupiat built a world that centered on their interdependence with the vast and diverse animal life found in their seas, skies and land.
		The Inupiat people, working through the North Slope Borough, will act in the same careful, caring and cautious manner we always have when dealing with our lands and the seas.
	www.anwr.org /people/nageak.html (475 words)

	Alaska's North Slope: Biggest Oil Spill Yet (TreeHugger)
		::Alaska's North Slope sees its biggest oil spill, via ::Dave Pollard, ::BP Solar Profitable – Solar has Bright Future Ahead, ::BP Plans to Invest $8 Billion In Renewable Energy, ::Toyota and BP Biofuels Research Partnership, ::Arctic Refuge Drilling Blocked in US Senate, ::Arctic Wildlife Refuge Safe...
		Because the State of Alaska gets most of its revenues from this oil (unlike the rest of us who pay income and property taxes to our states), this possible explanation indicates a positive feedback loop stuck in full open position.
		In North Carolina, I met a labor activist who mentioned a labor group in Florida called the Coalition for Immokalee Workers that had stumbled onto a case of slavery in the orange groves.
	www.treehugger.com /files/2006/03/alaskas_north_s.php (2193 words)

	Find in a Library: Alaska's North Slope requirements for restoring lands after oil production ceases.
		Find in a Library: Alaska's North Slope requirements for restoring lands after oil production ceases.
		Alaska's North Slope requirements for restoring lands after oil production ceases.
		Oil pollution of soils -- Environmental aspects -- Alaska -- North Slope.
	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/4b5f286041bcc043a19afeb4da09e526.html (84 words)

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