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	Baked Alaska
		KAKTOVIK, ALASKA - Skeptics of global warming should come to this Eskimo village on the Arctic Ocean, roughly 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
		Alaska has warmed by 8 degrees, on average, in the winter, over the last three decades, according to meteorological records.
		Kaktovik's airstrip, 50 years old, has begun to flood because of higher seas, so it may be moved upland.
	healthandenergy.com /baked_alaska.htm (856 words)

	Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
		Kaktovik, located just north of the ANWR Coastal Plain on Barter Island, is the only village within the Refuge.
		Today, Kaktovik has approximately 210 residents, most of whom are Inupiat Eskimos whose families have lived in the region for centuries.
		In the early 1920s, under the auspices of the Alaska Reindeer Service local superintendent at Barrow, several herds of reindeer were established in the ANWR area.
	arcticcircle.uconn.edu /ANWR/anwrculthistory.html (821 words)

	Kaktovik, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kaktovik is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, USA.
		Kaktovik is on the north shore of Barter Island, between the Okpilak and Jago Rivers on the Beaufort Sea coast.
		The area was incorporated as the City of Kaktovik in 1971.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kaktovik,_Alaska (509 words)

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		Kaktovik's current economy is a mixture of wage employment and subsistence activities.
		A considerable effort is expended by Kaktovik residents to interact with private, state, and federal agencies as well as with other subsistence and sport users to protect their fish and wildlife resource interests, even those at a distance from their territory.
		The importance, socially and nutritionally, of the barter and exchange of resources between Kaktovik and other North Slope communities is acknowledged and it is clearly understood that the health of nearby, as well as distant, resource areas is of importance to keep the basis for exchange alive.
	www.nativeknowledge.org /db/files/tp109.htm (5219 words)

	Communities - Alaska Native Education Program
		Bordered by the foothills of the Brooks Range to the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north, the borough encompasses 89,000 square miles, an area the size of Minnesota.
		Kaktovik has a public safety building and a fire station equipped with fire engines and an ambulance.
		Kaktovik is a dry village in which the sale and possession of alcoholic beverages is prohibited.
	www.nsbsd.org /anep/public/index.cfm/4,443,html (3737 words)

	US Interior secretary gets firsthand look at oil-rich wildlife refuge in Alaska - Business - International Herald ...
		KAKTOVIK, Alaska Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne made his first visit to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and was greeted by local leaders concerned not about drilling in the refuge, but by plans for offshore oil development.
		Kempthorne, on a three-day tour of Alaska's North Slope, landed Thursday at Kaktovik, the only village in the refuge, after aborting an earlier try when his chartered twin engine turboprop was forced to turn back to Deadhorse, 120 miles (195 kilometers) to the west.
		Kaktovik Mayor Lon Sonsalla said that people are worried about Shell's plans and that he told Kempthorne the town of about 260 people doesn't have the money to analyze the drilling proposal, much less fight it.
	www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/09/01/business/NA_FIN_US_Alaska_Oil.php (650 words)

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		The controversy is centered on the north slope of Alaska, specifically in an area called the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, for short.
		Kaktovik is about three or four miles from there, so they could drill for oil that close to the town.
		There is a struggle in Kaktovik with unemployment, not to mention certain essential services, like local health care and police and fire protection, so many are looking to the future.
	www.cbn.com /cbnnews/news/050526a.aspx?option=print (1369 words)

	Kaktovik Alaska Resource Guide, City or community of Kaktovik, Alaska Facts, Information, Relocation, Real Estate, ...
		The distance from Kaktovik to Washington DC is 3433 miles.
		The distance to the Alaska state capital is 861 miles.
		Kaktovik is positioned 70.04 degrees north of the equator and 143.63 degrees west of the prime meridian.
	www.usacitiesonline.com /akcountykaktovik.htm (187 words)

	Kaktovik informatiom
		Kaktovik is located on the north shore of Barter Island, between the Okpilak and Jago Rivers on the Beaufort Sea coast.
		Alaska Natives comprise approximately 85% of the population.
		In 1968, the tiny, secluded village of Kaktovik changed dramatically with the discovery of the largest oil field in the history of North America at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
	www.uark.edu /misc/jcdixon/Historic_Whaling/Villages/Kaktovik.htm (432 words)

	SitNews - Alaska village feels early effects of global warming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		To those who come to watch the scavenging bears on this sand spit, on the edge of the Inupiat Eskimo village of Kaktovik, their growing numbers on land are one more sign that a way of life thousands of years old is melting away.
		He has studied polar bears in Alaska for 25 years and is past chairman of the polar bear specialists group of the World Conservation Union, a body of nations, agencies and private groups dedicated to protecting species.
		At the North Slope Borough office in Kaktovik, village liaison Nora Jane Burns had lots of examples of how the sea has risen and the ice has melted since she was in her 20s two decades ago.
	www.sitnews.us /0106news/011706/011706_shns_warming_polar.html (2669 words)

	Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As part of Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the refuge was expanded by the United States Congress in 1980 through the lobbying efforts of Olaus and Margaret Murie, with The Wilderness Society.
		On the northern edge of the Refuge is the Inupiaq village of Kaktovik and on the southern boundary the Gwich'in settlement of Arctic Village.
		Beginning as predominantly treeless tundra with scattered islands of fl and white spruce trees, the forest becomes progressively denser as the foothills yield to the expansive flats north of the Yukon River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ANWR (854 words)

	Kaktovik, Alaska (AK) population and demographics data - Sperling's BestPlaces
		Kaktovik, Alaska (AK) population and demographics data - Sperling's BestPlaces
		Compared to the rest of the country, Kaktovik's cost of living is 17.00% higher than the U.S. average.
		The unemployment rate in Kaktovik is 9.50 percent (U.S. avg.
	www.bestplaces.net /city/profile.aspx?city=Kaktovik_AK (102 words)

	Life in Kaktovik
		Kaktovik is located on the Northern part of Alaska, in the Beaufort Sea.
		In Kaktovik we have a beautiful view of the Brooks Range mountains (the farthest north mountains).
		Here are all the animals we have in Kaktovik: caribou, ptarmigan, whales, brown bear, porcupine, rams, sheep, moose, ducks, eagles, polar bear (nanuq), bowhead whales, beluga, seals, walrus, ring seals, Arctic foxes, red fox, wolves, wolverines, seagulls, snow owl, weasel, musk ox, squirrels, lemmings, minnows, hawks, and crows.
	arcticstudents.blogspot.com (1480 words)

	The City of Kaktovik Alaska
		ANWR was expanded to become the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with the 1980 passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA).
		The essence of the Kaktovik position is that we would support oil exploration and development of the coastal plain provided we are given the authority and the resources to ensure that it is done properly and safely.
		The details of this position are stated in much greater detail in what we call the Kaktovik Papers, a set of documents entitled: In This Place: A Guide to Those Who Would Work in the Country of the Kaktovikmiut click here to download.
	www.kaktovik.com /perspectives1.html (418 words)

	Native Alaskan village calls Shell Oil "a hostile and dangerous force" \| AlaskaReport.com
		Kaktovik's City Council has passed a resolution calling Shell "a hostile and dangerous force" and authorizing the mayor to take legal or other actions necessary to "defend the community."
		A long time supporter of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, The village of Kaktovik is now feuding with Shell Oil over its offshore oil-hunting plans, according to a report in the Anchorage Daily News today.
		Kaktovik is an Inupiat Eskimo village of nearly 300 people along the Beaufort Sea coast.
	www.alaskareport.com /village.htm (217 words)

	Anchorage Guest House, Adventure Travel Hostel, Alaska, USA
		The village of Kaktovik is located entirely within the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge and is 88% Inupiat Eskimo.
		The Gwichin Athabascan peoples native to areas south and east of the Arctic Refuge depend on subsistence hunting of land mammals which feed and calve on the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge, specifically the Porcupine caribou herd of approximately 123, 000 animals.
		These studies conclude that the impacts of oil and gas production facilties on the coastal plain eco-system will be significant due to: the requirements of land for employee and production facilities, gravel mines and roads, fresh water for ice roads, noise, air pollution, vehicle traffic, air strips, boat harbors, and pipelines.
	www.alaska.net /~house/realalaskamission.html (715 words)

	Arctic Alaska Northern Lights (Aurora borealis) and Winter Wildlife photo tour in Alaska. Guided by professional ...
		After moving to Alaska in 1981 from Wisconsin, Patrick has traveled extensively throughout the state photographing and observing the delicate balance of nature in the arctic and sub-arctic environments.
		His genuine love and enthusiasm for the natural world combined with his 19 years of traveling Alaska's interior, arctic and coastal regions have given him a strong knowledge of the area's ecosystems and the varied aspects of photographing in Alaska's ever-changing wilderness surroundings.
		Kaktovik is a native village inhabited by approximately 250 Inupiat “Eskimo” people who are endemic to this region of arctic Alaska.
	www.alaskaphotographics.com /northern_lights_photo_tour.shtml (4235 words)

	Fairbanks Fish and Wildlife Office - Fisheries Assessment and Monitoring
		The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) of 1980 directs that fish populations and their habitats be maintained in their natural abundance and diversity within the 16 national wildlife refuges in Alaska.
		This study aims to evaluate the feasibility and usefulness of using a DIDSON to estimate Dolly Varden stock abundance in the Hulahula River near Kaktovik, Alaska.
		The DIDSON sonar is a relatively recent technology that is becoming widely used within Alaska for fish enumeration which may, for the first time, allow accurate abundance estimation of Dolly Varden in North Slope Rivers.
	alaska.fws.gov /fisheries/fieldoffice/fairbanks/monitoring.htm (1025 words)

	Alaska Town Split Over Drilling in Wildlife Refuge (washingtonpost.com)
		KAKTOVIK, Alaska -- In the long struggle over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Inupiat Eskimos who live in this outpost have played a key role.
		But a recent petition opposing drilling attracted the signatures of 57 of Kaktovik's 188 adults, and Mayor Lon Sonsalla said he is no longer certain where the majority stand.
		The opinions of natives in Kaktovik have become critical to the debate.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A10253-2005Apr22.html (658 words)

	Kaktovik News
		The North Slope village of Kaktovik has passed a resolution calling oil company Royal Dutch Shell "a hostile and dangerous force." The resolution authorizes the mayor to take legal or other actions necessary to...
		Published: March 18, 2006 Last Modified: March 18, 2006 at 12:12 AM Agreement helps to protect Kaktovik Kaktovik and the U.S. Minerals Management Service have signed a "memorandum of understanding" that...
		According to the Associated Press, Alaska Native whale hunters seeking more humane weaponry are turning to a supersonic explosive that whaling captains say is safer and more efficient.
	www.topix.net /city/kaktovik-ak (530 words)

	SitNews - Alaska Inupiat Join In Support of ANWR Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Leavitt led the group of Alaska Inupiat by stating "We believe in the development because at first we were opposed to construction of the pipeline.
		Kaktovik is the only community the lies with the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain, the area of ANWR proposed for oil exploration.
		Following the statements made by the Senators, the Alaska Inupiat and the Secretary of the Interior the group received a question regarding drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf.
	www.sitnews.us /0305news/031605/031605_anwr.html (1146 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Alaska OCS Region
		The proposed sale area is seaward up to 60 miles offshore of the State of Alaska submerged land boundary in the Beaufort Sea.
		It extends from the Canadian border on the east to near Barrow, Alaska, on the west.
		Kaktovik, Alaska, Friday, July 26, 2002, Quargi Community Center, 7-9 p.m.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2002/June/Day-19/i15392.htm (887 words)

	Kaktovik ANWR Survey
		A $25,000 grant was given to the City of Kaktovik by the State of Alaska to educate people about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
		With the funds, the City of Kaktovik has developed this web site, made a calendar and taken a survey of the people of Kaktovik.
		The survey asks questions of the local residents regarding current oil development practices on the North Slope of Alaska and their opinions of future oil development.
	www.anwr.org /features/kaktovik.htm (450 words)

	Kaktovik Real Estate - Kaktovik Alaska
		You might be interested to know that Kaktovik has a population of 269 and the average household income in Kaktovik is $60,702.
		Residents of Kaktovik enjoy -16.8 degree weather in the month of January and 45.7 degree weather in the month of July.
		The median age in Kaktovik is 25.79 and the average household size in Kaktovik is 3.53.
	www.homepages.com /localpages/Alaska/Kaktovik.htm (131 words)

	Kongakut River Rafting Alaska rivers ANWR raft trips Brooks Range paddle trips Arctic natural history Canoeing, Hiking ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is America's wildest wilderness, and Alaska's largest national wildlife refuge, its 19.6-million acres encompassing the full range of arctic ecosystems.
		We raft through a corridor of emerald mountains, dodging aufeis (shelves of overflow ice) and with luck, encountering herds of caribou, paddling rafts 75 miles down the river to the Arctic Ocean.
		Day 11: From our last camp, our pilot makes a classic Alaska bush pilot landing on a rough patch of gravel, and flies us to Barter Island, where we pause in the small Inupiat village of Kaktovik, hiking out to the whale boneyard, and birding on the tundra and along the coast.
	www.equinoxexpeditions.com /kongakuttobeaufort.html (1452 words)

	"the People's Paths!" NAIIP News Path! - Cree Agreement Example for Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Today, Kaktovik is home to 260 residents, most of whom are Inupiat Eskimos whose families have lived in the region for centuries.
		The Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation supports legislation to open the Coastal Plain of ANWR to oil and gas development.
		The Inupiat of Kaktovik and the North Slope of Alaska are predominantly affiliated with Presbyterianism.
	www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /News2002/0202/Moran020208Inupiat-ANWR.htm (408 words)

	ANWR: American Energy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation and Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (both Alaska Native corporations) own 94,000 acres in the Coastal Plain surrounding the village of Kaktovik.
		The Inupiat Eskimo people have inhabited Alaska’s northern slope for generations, long before Congress claimed it as a wildlife refuge.
		The Inupiat Eskimos have survived in one of the harshest environments on earth and even today live a subsistent lifestyle, relying on the land to supply their daily needs.
	resourcescommittee.house.gov /issues/emr/report/history.htm (486 words)

	Subsistence Curriculum Materials
		Medicinal flora of the Alaska Natives : a compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants Anchorage, Alaska : Alaska Natural Heritage Program 1999.
		The Harvest of Fish and Wildlife in Three Alaska Communities: Brevig Mission, Golovin, and Shishmaref.
		The University of Alaska Fairbanks is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and educational institution and is a part of the University of Alaska system.
	www.ankn.uaf.edu /IKS/subsistence/innysub.html (863 words)

	Kaktovik’s Native village corporation, unlike village, will work with Shell - June 18, 2006 - Petroleum News
		Kaktovik’s Native village corporation, unlike village, will work with Shell
		Kaktovik’s Native village corporation has distanced itself from a village government resolution denouncing Shell Oil for pursuing oil exploration in whaling grounds offshore northern Alaska.
		The Kaktovik Inupiat Corp. said the week of June 5 that “the best way to deal with Shell Oil Co. is to work....
	www.petroleumnews.com /pntruncate/62458942.shtml (142 words)

	Kaktovik, Alaska (AK) Detailed Profile - relocation, real estate, travel, jobs, hotels, hospitals, schools, crime, news
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