Lake Clark National Park and Preserve Subsistence Harvest Surveys

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This project is a joint effort between the National Park Service and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) that will generate information about community subsistence economies and collect data by which to estimate subsistence harvest by local residents of communities traditionally associated with Lake Clark National Park and Preserve (LCNPP). Community-based harvest reporting has been shown to be a valuable means for collecting reliable harvest data in rural Alaska. Collecting harvest and use information through in-person household surveys and conducting contextual ethnographic interviews with local key respondents give a more comprehensive picture of a community-wide subsistence economy than only investigating reported harvests for individual species such as salmon or large land mammals.

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