Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
Summary
Description
This layer shows all categories of polar bear critical habitat combined into one overall polygon. This polygon includes the following critical habitat types: 1) barrier islands and spits 2) one-mile wide no disturbance zone around islands and spits 3) denning habitat on the mainland between the Yukon border and Barrow 4) sea ice Datasets that were combined to create this one: Polar Bear Data.gdb \ Critical_Habitat_Barrier_Islands \ Barrier_Islands Polar Bear Data.gdb \ Critical_Habitat_Barrier_Islands \ No_Disturbance_Zone Polar Bear Data.gdb \ Critical_Habitat_Denning \ Denning_Habitat_95_percent_den_locations Polar Bear Data.gdb \ Critical_Habitat_Feeding \ Feeding_Critical_Habitat All features in this dataset that represent coastal shorelines were obtained from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' statewide 1:63,360 scale coastline dataset, available at ftp://ftp.dnr.state.ak.us/asgdc/alaska_63360.zip