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Narrative of monitoring walrus harvest in Wales, 1980, including suggestions for future monitoring efforts. Results: Specimens: 68 Total Sex: 37 Male, 31 Female. Teeth: 67 pairs. Repros: 2. Stomachs: 10.

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A total of 136 observations of Aleutian Canada geese were made on the SW, SE, and W sides of Chagulak Island on three different dates. The majority of the birds observed were either not banded or too far away to determine if they had leg bands. Most of the birds observed were either paired or in small flocks of ten or fewer birds which exhibited some territoriality. The number of potential duplicate observations made is unknown because of changes in weather, time and location. The birds were seen mainly in the mossywillow habitat and upper edge of the Elynmus umbell habitat.

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Annotated, coded bibliography based on holdings of Chugach National Forest office files, Alaska Dept. of Fish Game Cordova office files, University of Alaska Fairbanks library, and USFWS Region 7 library in Anchorage.

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A total of 119.63 km of beach were walked in 41 surveys Appendix 1.. Birds and mammals were found on 16 of these surveys. There were 0.03 birdskm beach walked, and 0.14 mammalskm beach walked Table 1. The cause of death was not determined for any of the beached animals. There were no observations of oil or any other unusual water conditions. Three goosebeaked whales Ziphuis cavirostris and one Stejaegers beaked whale Mesoplodon stejnegeri were discovered in late July and early August. Two other whales beached at this time, one of which was returned to the ocean. The cause of beaching was not determined. Data and samples collected from these whales were sent to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. for analysis.

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Accuracy assessments of two versions of Landsatassisted land cover maps were conducted on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Ground determinations and map classifications were compared for 126 map polygons. Agreement occurred at 53 of the polygons on the 1982 Landsat map and 48 on the 1985 map. The largest source of error 25 on the 1982 map and 27 on the 1985 map was cutpoints between closely related land cover classes. Classes are related to each other along gradients of moisture, shrub cover, or total plant cover. Misclassification errors where the plant community found on the ground clearly did not belong to the map class occurred at 17 of the 1982 map polygons and 22 of the 1985 polygons. Most commonly the map misclassified braided river floodplain communities as wet or moist plant communities. Description errors indicating that the land cover class description needed additions or modifications to allow the user to accurately identify the class occurred on 6 of the 1982 polygons and 4 of the 1985 polygons. Since cutpoint errors between closely related classes accounted for the majority of errors, the Landsatassisted maps are useful for showing general distributions of land cover classes.

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Report of a nineday survey of Chukchi Sea Unit of the Alaska Maritime NWR, including census of murres and kittiwakes, discuss refuge boundaries at Cape Lisburne Air Force station, inspect disturbed areas, and inspect navigation tower established under special use permit.

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This report summarizes the Waterfowl Production and Habitat Survey for Alaska during 1969. The primary purpose of the survey is to provide information on duck production from the midcontinent breeding areas. Survey methods, weather and habitat conditions, production indices, and tables of waterfowl brood and latenesting indices are provided.

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Transcript of speech by Dr. Ira Gabrielson, president of Wildlife Management Institute, to Alaska Constitutional Convention, December 14, 1955.

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Summary of the effects of acid rain and related processes, sources, issues, corrective actions, research, current law, potential solutions, political solutions, costs to remedy, and emission projections, written during the authors training assignment with the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.

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This report summarizes the Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey for Alaska during 1969. The primary purpose of the survey is to provide information on spring population size and trajectory for certain North American duck species. Survey methods, habitat and weather conditions, breeding population indices, and tables of population estimates are provided.

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This paper reports a preliminary attempt to census fall water bird populations in Bristol Bay within the zone from high tide to the 12mile off shore limit. Aerial sampling techniques, originally designed for censusing breeding pairs of ducks in marshlands, were modified slightly for this survey. Results of our census provided positive information on these bird populations and indicated that, with further refinements, better information can be collected in the future.

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This report present statistics for the years 19451946, 19461947, and 19481949. Hunters and trappers are required to report their previous years take when applying for their current license. Accordingly, data from reports is not available until almost a year after the end of the reporting year. Alaska native are not required to purchase licenses and report results. Estimated takes are provided for Alaska natives.

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An occasional year of poor reproductive success is no novelty among Arcticnesting birds. Conservationists have become reconciled to this fact, although they still shudder at the possibility of poor hatches two years in a row among heavilyhunted waterfowl that nest in the Far North. Productivity data we now have for 1961 and 1962 suggest that environmental conditions in the North were generally unfavorable for Arctic geese during these two consecutive breeding seasons. Yet the snows and blues, whitefronted geese, and so far as we know the other Northern nesting geese and swans, did much better in 1962 than in their 1961 nesting. What may have made the difference in 1962 was the relatively large proportion of mature breeders in the nesting populations that season, breeders that were already experienced and able better to cope with unfavorable nesting conditions.

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Survey tallied 7,867 adult, 4,414 and 59 unknown age bald eagles in 45 of lower 48 states.

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Patrol and reconnaissance of ANWR from June 9 to June 25, 1965, including notes on active mineral exploration, condition of previous years camps, other human activity, activity adjacent to ANWR, recreational potential and access sites, and wildlife observations.

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Surveys of 16 beaches on Amchitka Island began 28 October 1978 as part of Alaska Beached Bird Survey. The purpose of the surveys is to provide baseline data on natural patterns of mortality of birds and marine mammals. This data could be used in the future to determine the magnitude of the effects of natural or unnatural disasters on wildlife population. Except for a three month period from September through November 1978, surveys were conducted on a regular basis until shortly before Amchitkia was closed as a year round field station in October 1980. Total number of dead birds found was 33, with 39 being bald eagles, 18 unidentifiable, and the remaining 43 divided between 12 species. Total number of dead mammals was 96 with sea otters making up 79 of that number.

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Report results, difficulties in obtaining results, and recommendations for future surveys of subsistence harvest of migratory birds.

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Notes on 52 bird species and 9 mammal species observed during unsuccessful attempt to confirm reported sighting of Eskimo Curlew the prior summer.

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Species compositions, interspecifies relationships, nesting, hatching success, aviation predation, human predation and other variables related to goose and brant nesting on the YukonKuskokwim Delta, based on Sigurd T. Olsons survey in June and July 1961.

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This report summarizes the Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey for Alaska during 1970. The primary purpose of the survey is to provide information on spring population size and trajectory for certain North American duck species. Survey methods, habitat and weather conditions, breeding population indices, and tables of population estimates are provided.

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The majority of the seabirds on the refuge use Puffin Island. Table 2 indicates the species composition and number of seabirds censused on 13 August from 1200 1400, and our best estimate of the seabird population. In addition to the census, we made 5 counts of murres at Puffin Island to determine species composition. The counts revealed that Common and Thickbilled murres were in a ratio of 2.9:1. This figure was used to determine total number of each murre species. The most striking feature of Puffin Island is the number of Horned Puffins nesting in burrows. We found that 70 of the puffins that we counted were sitting in a soil habitat. In the plots we established on Puffin Island, we found 19, 29, and 23 burrows X 23.6 or .94 burrowssquare meter for the three plots. By creating such a dense matrix of burrows, the Horned Puffins may be radically altering the habitat on Puffin Island. A comparison of photographs taken in 1968 and 1977 Appendix I show that a considerable loss of vegetation has occurred with subsequent erosion. The digging of the puffins may only hasten the erosion.

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For the third consecutive year, USFWS conducted a walrus Odobenus rosmarus divergens harvest health and welfare study in six Bering Sea coastal villages. The Eskimo Walrus Commission EWC was a cooperator in the study. Goals were to determine harvest levels, age structure, reproductive history, feeding habits and contaminant loading for various body organs and tissues of harvested walruses. The documented harvest level for the Nome and King Island, Cape Woolley areas was 102 and 615 walruses respectively Specimens collected included 36 pair of lower canine teeth, 23 female reproductive tracts and contents of seven stomachs. Inclement weather precluded active successful hunting in the Nome area during the spring of 1982. The hunting success later at King Island was significantly greater than in 1981. When combined the total harvest of walruses from Nome and King Island was similar to 1981 as was the sex composition of the harvest for the individual locations. Crew, boat and motor sizes remained appreciably unchanged from 1981.

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Review of the alpinelike vegetation of the Aleutian Islands, classified as marine tundra.

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Convention Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Concerning the Conservation of Migratory Birds and Their Environment, signed November 19, 1976, hereinafter referred to as the Russian Convention and to compare it with existing federal wildlife and other environmental legislation, emphasizing those aspects of the Russian Convention which are not implemented or not fully implemented by existing law. Included in this analysis is a discussion of various measures to be considered if the Fish and Wildlife Service determines to seek full legislative implementation of the Russian Convention.

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Daily observations of pigeon guillemots varied from a 59 sightings on 4 June to 430 sightings on 13 June. In all, 3,585 pigeon guillemots were observed.