Federal Information is particularly important to Alaskans since the federal government owns 62.5% of the land in the State.  The federal government owns a greater percentage of just three other states: Nevada, Utah, and Idaho. However, in terms of absolute acreage, Alaska stands alone.  Nearly 228 million acres of Alaska are part of the federal domain, which is nearly four times more than the 58 million acres the federal government owns in Nevada!

Important agencies

United States Forest Service - Alaska Region  - Alaska is home to the two largest national forests in the United States - the Tongass and the Chugach.  The 17 million acre Tongass, larger than the state of West Virginia, occupies the "panhandle" or southeastern portion of Alaska.  The Chugach covers 5.3 million acres of land and extends south and east of Anchorage along the Southcentral Alaskan coast.  It encompasses most of the Prince William Sound area. The Forest Service actively manages these forests with many different program areas, including - Ecology, Subsistence, Engineering, Ecosystem Planning, Botany, Hydrology, Geometronics (maps), Law Enforcement, Fisheries, Lands (Real Estate), Recreation, Wildlife, Minerals and Geology, Heritage Resources, Appeals/Litigation, Soil and Wetlands, Forestry, and Fire Management.
          Chugach National Forest
          Tongass National Forest
              Tongass National Forest Management News -- Includes link to latest "annual performance report."
 

Bureau of Land Management - Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management is responsible for managing over 86 million acres of land in Alaska.  According to their mission Statement, "the Bureau of Land Management's primary responsibility is to manage public lands. In Alaska, its focus is conveying land, providing interagency wildland fire management, overseeing the Joint Pipeline Office (a partnership with the state and other federal agencies with oversight responsibility of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline), and responding to the public demand for use of public land."
           Joint Pipeline Office - Home page offers weekly pipeline activity reports.
           Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) Right-of-Way renewal application
 

Environmental Protection Agency - Region 10 Alaska Page - This site has links to Superfund sites maps, other charts and information about water quality.
 

National Park Service - Alaska Region -- From this site, learn about Alaska's many National parks, see their annual report, learn about the history and archaeology work the NPS is doing, and much more.  Take a closer look at Alaska parklands by using their Geographic Information System.
 

National Marine Fisheries Service - Alaska Regional Office -- According to their national web site, the mission of the National Marine Fisheries Service is to Rebuild and maintain sustainable fisheries, Promote the recovery of protected species, and Protect and maintain the health of coastal marine habitats.  In Alaska, they fulfill their mission by using a mixture of research and regulation.  In addition, the site provides links to fisheries outlook and catch statistics.
 

Minerals Management Service - Alaska Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region -- The agency is responsible for is to
managing the mineral resources of the Outer Continental Shelf in an environmentally sound and safe manner. They do a great deal of research on the OCS region and prepare oil and gas leases on federal acreage.  There is also a page for historic drilling data dating back to 1975, when the first first deep stratigraphic test well in the Gulf of Alaska was drilled.
 

Army Corps of Engineers - Alaska District -- According to their web site the mission of the Alaska district is "is to design and construct military projects for the Army, Air Force, civil works and water resources development projects for coastal communities. The Corps also conducts military Real Estate transactions, is responsible for Emergency Operations involving  national emergency and natural disaster, and regulates development in navigable waters, and  placement of fill material in waters and wetlands."   A notable feature of this site is the Project maps and index sheets for Rivers, Harbors and Flood Control projects.  From here you can get maps, photos and brief histories of each project undertaken by the corps. 
 

United States Geological Survey (USGS) has many programs operating in Alaska: coastal habitat studies, a water resources data center, geologic and geophysical mapping, a program offering aeromagnetic maps and data, and mineral resources information.  The USGS also operates the Alaska Earthquake Information Center and the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
 

Federal Statistical Information about Alaska

Census Bureau State and County Quick Facts for Alaska -- Includes information down to the county level and links to further data sets.

Alaska Statistics from Fedstats.gov -- Basic statistics on the following subjects are available here: agriculture, population and demographics, business and banking, crime, education, energy and environment, and personal income and earnings. 

Alaska Agricultural Statistics Service -- Of course Alaska has agriculture!  Here you can find links to the latest Census of Agriculture, annual statistical bulletins, Monthly Potato Stocks, the Alaska Farm Reporter and the Weekly Crop-Weather Reports.

National compensation surveys for Juneau and Anchorage -- Pay for different occupations in different economic sectors is presented here. 

County Business Patterns for Alaska -- Available from 1993 forward.  County Business Patterns present information on establishments, employees and payrolls for state and borough areas, and by industry. 

Community Health Status Indicators Project -- Despite its name and the find a county on its search page, you'll only be able to find statewide information for Alaska. Still quite interesting though, since it provides a number of indicators and compares them to similar areas of the country.

Trends in Indian Health -- Provides health indicators for the American Indian/Alaska Native communities. Data is not broken down into tribal groups.

Waterborne commerce of the United States.  Waterways and harbors, Pacific Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii  -- See what's been coming and going through Alaskan and other Pacific Ports.
 

Other Federal Information about Alaska

Alaska cooperative snow survey data of  federal-state-private cooperative snow surveys -- Learn about snow and other precipitation that falls on Alaska. 

Alaska Resource Data Files - Descriptions of mines, prospects, and mineral occurrences for individual U.S. Geological Survey 1:250,000-scale quadrangles in Alaska (see accompanying map or table) as USGS Open File Reports and are available for downloading from this site. Reports are in PDF format.

Forest insect and disease conditions in Alaska in ...-- Data available from 1997 forward have published as a joint venture between the US Forest Service and the Forestry Division of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources.

Shipwrecks Off Alaska's Coast -- This database, offered by the Minerals Management Service, covers all ships lost off of Alaska's coast from 1741 through September 2000. Each entry provides: Date of wreck, Vessel name, Cause of wreck, Location of wreck (not in Lat/Lon), Sources, and Other pertinent information.  The database can be searched by  Year of Wreck, Name of Vessel, Cause, Location  or from an alphabetical listing.  This page also links to an impressive webliography of naval research, as well as a table of "Alaska's Worst All Time Shipping Losses."