Impacts on tundra vegetation from heavy metal-enriched fugitive dust on National Park Service lands along the Red Dog Mine haul road, Alaska.

The DeLong Mountain Transportation System (DMTS) haul road links the Red Dog Mine-one of the world's largest zinc mines-with a shipping port on the Chukchi Sea in northwest Alaska, USA. The road traverses 32 km of National Park Service (NPS) lands managed by Cape Krusenstern National Monument (...

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Published in:PLOS ONE
Main Authors: Peter N Neitlich, Shanti Berryman, Linda H Geiser, Anaka Mines, Alyssa E Shiel
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269801
https://doaj.org/article/9ad76a21ba314ade91d61e1f7918a53b