Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) Data Base, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is the most northern and one of the largest Refuges within America's National Wildlife Refuge System. The Arctic Refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. The USFWS ANWR site contains information and data on wildlife, habitat, and people in the Arctic Refuge. The Refuge is home to more than 160 bird species, 36 kinds of land mammals, nine marine mammal species, and 36 types of fish. The ANWR geological and land surface databases are available from the Alaska Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (AGDC) at "http://agdc.usgs.gov/data/projects/anwr/webhtml/" The data consists of political boundaries and coastlines, land cover and vegetation maps, rivers, streams and wetlands, elevation contours, satellite images (Landsat-MSS and Landsat-TM), surficial geology, and coastal bathymetry as well as Alaska statewide land characterization and geospatial data.