On the threshold: Refuges Alaska, ca. 1971 - ca. 1977
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Finding US Government work
The record names a federal body as the creating agency: Department of the Interior. US Fish and Wildlife Service. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act).
The record names a federal body as the creating agency. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act). This says nothing about copyright outside the United States, or about music, stock footage or other material the film may incorporate.
- Creating body, as recorded
- Department of the Interior. US Fish and Wildlife Service
- National Archives Identifier
- 5833 (local identifier 22.69)
- Internet Archive item
- gov.archives.arc.5833 (uploader's licence mark: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
The record
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National Archives and Records Administration On the threshold: Refuges Alaska, ca. 1971 - ca. 1977 Department of the Interior. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (07/01/1974 - ) ARC Identifier 5833 / Local Identifier 22.69. This film presents Alaskan regions proposed by the Secretary of the Interior to be part of the National Wildlife Refuge System, including proposed Koyukuk, Yukon Flats, Yukon Delta, Selawik, Arctic, Chukchi Sea, and Togiak National Wildlife Refuges; plus a Noatak National Arctic Range and Iliamna National Resource Range, both to be part of the National Wildlife Refuge System in connection with the Bureau of Land Management. Each region is described by its geography, vegetation, wildlife, and the importance of conserving its particular features. Begins with a brief history of events leading up to the decision to reserve 80 million acres of Alaskan land for wildlife. Includes aerial shots of rivers and mountains. Many still and moving images of Native peoples, birds, salmon, caribou, polar bears, seals, and walruses. DVD copied by Liz Pruszko.