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Resource Management
As part of their annual resource program of work, Yakutat district employees typically:
- Capture, measure, mark and release fish.
- Analyze data collected on salmon populations and other species to aid in subsisteance fisheries management.
- Conduct aerial and land surveys of the district forests to assess its eccological health and status.
- Maintain periodic reconnaissance, by water and air, of the Hubbard Glacier to have early warning of the next formation of an ice dam across the outlet of Russell Fiord.
- Conduct inspections and investigations of potential historical sites to insure their preservation.
- Monitor rivers and lakes for compilance with water quality standards.
- Monitor threatened, endangered and key species such as trumpeter swans, arctic terns, bald eagles, Steller sea lions, moonwort, Aleutian terns, Canada geese, Queen Charlotte goshawks, marbled murrelets, beluga whales and lynx.
- Monitor use and population size of subsistence species: mountain goats, Alaska moose, black bear, brown bear and Sitka black-tail deer.
USDA Forest Service - Tongass National Forest Accessibility Statement
Last Modified: August 28, 2007