Steese National Conservation Area
by Bureau of Land Management
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Steese National Conservation Area
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Bureau of Land Management
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A half day’s drive from Fairbanks, Alaska, Steese National Conservation Area offers majestic scenery, solitude, outstanding recreation, and important wildlife habitat. This 1.2 million-acre area, straddling the remote Steese Highway, provides a breathtaking summer backdrop for hiking, backpacking, camping, fishing, berry picking, and hunting under Alaska’s midnight sun. Exquisite winter solitude and untouched scenery await adventurous travelers who explore by skis, snowshoes, dogsleds, or snowmobiles. The annual life cycle of caribou (the Fortymile and White Mountains herds) unfolds dramatically here during summer calving in the high alpine tundra and later during migration to winter habitat in black spruce boreal forests. Dall sheep, uncommon in interior Alaska, may be seen year-round. Visitors may also spot raptors, upland birds, moose, fox, and bears along the Birch Creek Wild and Scenic River or the unforgettable Pinnell Mountain National Recreation Trail. The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act designated the Steese National Conservation Area in 1980. Today, the area is part of the Bureau of Land Management’s National Landscape Conservation System (also known as National Conservation Lands).
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July 6th, 2022
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