Lake Clark National Park And Preserve II

Title

Lake Clark National Park And Preserve II

Artist

Jan Mulherin

Medium

Photograph - Digital Photography - Enhanced

Description

Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is a United States National Park in Port Alsworth, Alaska. It was first proclaimed a national monument in 1978, then established as a national park and preserve in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The park includes many streams and lakes vital to the Bristol Bay salmon fishery, including its namesake Lake Clark. A wide variety of recreational activities may be pursued in the park and preserve year-round. Located about 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Anchorage, the park includes a variety of features not found together in any of the other Alaska Parks: the junction of three mountain ranges, a coastline with rainforests along the Cook Inlet, a plateau with alpine tundra on the west, glaciers, glacial lakes, major salmon-bearing rivers, and two volcanoes, Mount Redoubt and Mount Iliamna. Redoubt is active, erupting in 1989 and 2009. The wide variety of ecosystems in the park mean that virtually all major Alaskan animals, terrestrial and marine, may be seen in and around the park. Salmon, particularity sockeye salmon, play a major role in the ecosystem and the local economy. The Kvichak River is the world's most productive watershed for sockeye salmon. Large populations of brown bears are attracted as a result, to feed on the spawning salmon in the Kijik River and at Silver Salmon Creek, and as a result bear viewing is a common activity in the park.[3]

No roads lead to the park and it can only be reached by boat or small aircraft, typically floatplanes. The major settled area in the park and preserve is Port Alsworth on Lake Clark. Five other settlements are within the park, populated mainly by Dena'ina natives. Prior to the park's establishment isolated cabins were scattered around the region, the most well-known belonging to Richard Proenneke, whose films documenting his solitary life at Twin Lakes were made into Alone in the Wilderness in 2003.

Lake Clark was proclaimed a National Monument by President Jimmy Carter using the Antiquities Act on December 1, 1978. Lake Clark's status was changed to National Park and Preserve in 1980 by Congress, and about two-thirds was designated wilderness. While both sport and subsistence hunting are permitted in the national preserve lands, only subsistence hunting by local residents is permitted within the national park.

(Wikipedia)

This image has been featured in the following Fine Art America Groups:

Wildlife - ONE per Day: September 30, 2018
KINGDOM Animala: October 1, 2018
Digital Art & Photography for a Simple Imagination; October 1, 2018
Travel Art: October 7, 2018
Nature, Landmarks, Landscapes & Wildlife: October 7, 2018
World Landscape Lovers of Art: October 9, 2018
Ladies Club: October 10, 2018
10 Plus: October 18, 2018
Camera Art: October 19, 2018
Art for Ever with You: November 4, 2018

The keywords associated with this image are Lake Clark, national park, preserve, bear, bears, mountains, mountain, water, lake, river, tree, trees, nature, outdoors, Alaska, and Jan Mulherin.

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