| | The Conservation Fund - Kodiak Island National Wildlife Refuge, AK |
 | | The stage was set in 1941 with the creation of the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, a haven for rich wildlife populations such as the Kodiak brown bear, the world’s largest land carnivore, as well as hundreds of nesting bald eagles and millions of Pacific salmon. |
 | | Thirty years later, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 gave Kodiak’s Native corporations title to 340,000 acres of refuge lands – and unintentionally pitted the economic future of Alaskans against the refuge and its wildlife. |
 | | In 1995, more than 210,000 acres of high-priority wildlife habitat were protected through a partnership between The Conservation Fund and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which secured Exxon Valdez oil spill restoration funds to purchase critical inholdings from the Natives of Kodiak. |
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