Wildlife Program Highlights

A group of kids crowd around a man wearing a fluorescent safety vest and gray baseball cap. The kids wear brightly colored clothing and each of them are looking down at the black gold pan that the man is holding. The pan is partially filled with water, but a couple of gold flakes are visible at the edge of the pan.

51 years of learning about Alaska’s resources

Since 1974, students from the Anchorage School District come to Campbell Creek for a field trip where they learn about wildlife safety, archaeology, birding, fly fishing, paleontology, land surveying, and gold panning.
Two women are looking up a hole in the tree while one of them is pointing at it.

The black bear housing market in Alaska

Bear surveys are necessary work on the Bureau of Land Management's Campbell Tract, a recreation area in Alaska that happens to be home to black bears. Staff conduct the surveys to ensure visitor safety and understand the bears' denning behavior.
Four people wearing gloves and hardhats stand and kneel around a tree they are about to cut down.

Felling trees for fish habitat

Staff directionally felled encroaching conifers into a creek near Lander, Wyoming, to mimic natural log jams and provide structure to the stream channel. This will improve the habitat for fish, beaver and other wildlife.