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SITE NAME
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Arctic Coastal Plain, Meade River to the Canadian border, Alaska, USA
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| Contact details
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| 907-786-3908/907-786-3641 // Christian_Dau@fws.gov // U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Migratory Bird Management Division, Mail Stop 201, 1011 E. Tudor Road, Anchorage, AK 99503-6199, USA
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| Observers in the Colville River Delta and Prudhoe Bay areas reported spring as 4-7 days later than 1998 which was reported early across the breadth of the coastal plain.
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
low
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Breeding conditions:
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| Abundant sea ice and in lakes, fresh-water ice was present until 1 July. In larger coastal lakes such as Teshekpuk Lake, ice cover was more extensive and likely persisted much longer.
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Rodent dynamics:
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| Snowy Owls were rare to absent east of the Meade River suggesting lemming abundance may have been a local phenomena near Barrow. Limited investigation in the Prudhoe Bay area suggested very low small mammal populations.
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
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