Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge

The Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge in the Kodiak Archipelago in southwestern Alaska, United States.

The refuge has only six native species of mammals: Kodiak bear, red fox, river otter, ermine, little brown bat and tundra vole.

The non-native mammals Sitka black-tailed deer, mountain goat, Roosevelt elk, caribou, marten, red squirrel, snowshoe hare, and beaver were introduced to the archipelago between the 1920s and 1950s and are now hunted and trapped.

[3] The climate of the refuge is that of southern Alaska, mild and rainy.

Many areas in the refuge are densely forested with Sitka spruce at lower elevations.

Map of Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge
Scenery, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge