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Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope (2003) / Chapter Skim
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2. The Human Environment
Pages 19-23

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... With the exception of a barge that travels to BarTABLE 2-1 North Slope Population row once in late summer, transportation between North Slope Native communities and areas off the North Slope is virtually entirely by air. The NSB's eight main communities (Anaktuvuk Pass, Atqasuk, Barrow, Kaktovik, Nuiqsut, Point Hope, Point Lay, and Wainwright)
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... Larger families were associated with plentiful game, skilled TABLE 2-2 Per Capita Income for 1999 Compared Area or Place Income Anaktuvuk Pass Atqasuk Barrow Kaktovik Nuiqsut Point Hope Point Lay Wa~nwright North Slope Total Alaska United States $15,283 $14,732 $22,902 $22,031 $14,876 $16,641 $18,003 $16,710 $20,540 $22,660 $21,587 SOURCE: Data from U.S. Bureau of the Census 2000.
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... Many people maintain strong cultural and spiritual ties to the resources, so that disruption of subsistence activities affects far more than food supplies. To understand the subsistence economies of the North Slope, it helps to examine annual subsistence cycles for a coastal and an inland northern Alaskan subsistence system.
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From page 22...
... The Arctic Village Gwich'in continue to maintain strong cultural and spiritual ties to the Porcupine Caribou Herd and the Arctic Coastal Plain. The Community Profile Database generated by the Division of Subsistence, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, has no specific harvest information for the Gwich'in community.
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... The population is concentrated in eight communities: Anaktuvuk Pass, Atqasuk, Barrow, Kaktovik, Nuiqsut, Point Hope, Point Lay, and Wainwright. (Deadhorse, at the northern terminus of the James Dalton Highway, is listed as a "place" by the census, but it functions mainly as a support center for the industrial complex surrounding petroleum development.
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