Sandwiched between Becharof National Wildlife Refuge to the north and Izembek NWR to the south, Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge presents a breathtakingly dramatic landscape made up of active volcanoes, towering mountain peaks, rolling tundra and rugged, wave-battered coastlines. As is the ........more >

Given its remote location and challenging weather conditions, Aniakchak is one of the most wild and least visited places in the National Park System. This landscape is a vibrant reminder of Alaska's location in the volcanically active Ring of Fire, as it is home to an impressive six mile 10 km wide, ........more >

Becharof National Wildlife Refuge is a land of contrasts. From its rugged coastline to the 4,835-foot summit of the Mt. Peulik volcano the name is taken from an Alaska Native word meaning smoking, or smoking mountain, it includes everything from tundra to braided, glacier-fed rivers to saw-toothed mountain ........more >

The Izembek National Wildlife Refuge is the smallest 315,000 acres and one of the most ecologically unique of Alaska's refuges. Most of the refuge 300,000 acres, was designated as Wilderness in 1980 under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. This diverse wilderness protects a wide variety ........more >

Katmai National Monument was created in 1918 to preserve the famed Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a spectacular forty square mile, 100 to 700 foot deep ash flow deposited by Novarupta Volcano. A National Park Preserve since 1980, today Katmai is still famous for volcanoes, but also for brown bears, ........more >

Kodiak is a rugged, beautiful island on the coast of southwestern Alaska. Established in 1941, the refuge provides habitat for brown bear, salmon and other wildlife. Kodiak's scenery is magnificient- rugged mountains, hundreds of miles of shoreline, lakes, marshes, bogs, and meadows. Four-thousand-foot ........more >

Nine major treeless and ragged rock islands, some sided with precipitous cliffs, were combined with many small rocks and islets to form Semidi Islands National Wildlife Refuge in 1932. In 1980 these lands became a subunit of the 715,000-acre Alaska Peninsula Unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife ........more >

One of 30 named islands in the Shumagin Group, Simeonof Island was established as a refuge for sea otters in 1958. It became a Wilderness in 1976 and a subunit of the Alaska Peninsula Unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in 1980. Refuge lands include the water, shoals, and kelp beds ........more >

The largest state park in the nation, at 1.6 million acres, Wood-Tikchik State Park was created in 1978 for the purpose of protecting the area's fish and wildlife breeding and support systems and preserving continued subsistence and recreational activities. The management philosophy is one of non-development ........more >

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