Six Strategies for Rehabilitating Land Disturbed by Oil Development in Arctic Alaska

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Jorgenson, M. Torre, Joyce, Michael R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1994
• Subjects: Animal distribution; Environmental impacts; Floods; Fishes; Granular resources extraction; Gravel; Oil spills on land; Oil well drilling; Reclamation; Revegetation; Roads; Tundra ecology; Wetlands; Wildlife habitat; Alaska; Northern; Prudhoe Bay region; Arctic; Gravier; Arctique*; Prudhoe Bay; toundra; Tundra
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64366

Oil development in arctic Alaska has left a range of disturbed lands that will eventually require rehabilitation. These lands include gravel roads and pads, gravel pits and overburden stockpiles, drilling reserve pits, occasional accidental spills, and other minor disturbances to the tundra. A long-...