Noatak National Preserve

Hunters distrusted the 1970s counts that said the Western Arctic Caribou Herd had crashed. A cooperative plan signed in 2003 uses ANILCA's provisions to bring hunters into management.

Robert Stottlemyer argues that remote parks such as Noatak and Isle Royale offer rare baselines for ecosystem science, but that long-term studies are hard to justify against pressing issues.