The Alaska North Slope is the region of the U.S. state of Alaska located on the northern slope of the Brooks Range along the coast of two marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean , the Chukchi Sea being on the western side of Point Barrow , and the Beaufort Sea on the eastern. With the exception of the highway connecting Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay , the region is disconnected from the rest of the Alaskan road system and relies mostly on waterways and small airports for transportation due to the Brooks Range secluding the region from the rest of the state.
16-471: North Slope can refer to: Alaska North Slope , a region encompassing the northernmost part of the U.S. state of Alaska North Slope Borough, Alaska , a borough in Alaska whose boundaries roughly coincide with that of the region North Slope, Tacoma, Washington , a neighborhood North Slope, an Inupiaq language dialect Alaska gas pipeline , also known as
32-588: A subject's race was only ever mentioned when it was material to the news, such as a physical description of a fugitive. He published many editorials and the Chronicle Star became known as the one paper that would publish opinions opposed to Ross Barnett , then Governor of Mississippi. In December 1962, Harkey published a series of five articles titled "The Oxford Disaster...Price of Defiance" by Pascagoula lawyer and state legislator Karl Wiesenburg which showed Barnett had no legal basis for his actions. During
48-686: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge . The entire coastal plain of Alaska has tremendous ecological importance with the densest concentration of birds in the Arctic. Under the North Slope is an ancient seabed, which now contains large amounts of petroleum . Within the North Slope, there is a geological feature called the Barrow Arch — a belt of the kind of rock known to be able to serve as a trap for oil. It runs from
64-760: The National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (NPRA), which was established by President Warren G. Harding in 1923 as an oil supply for the US Navy, though the presence of oil in the region had been known by American whalers for some time. It contains the bulk of Alaska's known petroleum until the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field was discovered (outside the NPRA) in 1968, followed by the Kuparuk River oil field in 1969. The petroleum extracted from
80-517: The U.S. Geological Survey estimated 3.6 billion barrels of oil and 8.9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in Mississippian through Paleogene strata in the central North Slope of Alaska, which are undiscovered and technically recoverable. 69°03′28″N 152°51′46″W / 69.0578758°N 152.8628274°W / 69.0578758; -152.8628274 Ira Harkey Ira B. Harkey Jr. (January 15, 1918 – October 8, 2006)
96-718: The New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper. He later wrote of the existence of “a flat rule that Negroes were not to appear in photographs” at the Times-Picayune ; it was a standard practice at the newspaper for African Americans to be airbrushed out of crowd scene images. Harkey purchased the Chronicle-Star in 1949. He immediately began making changes to how the paper wrote about the people who lived in Jackson County, Mississippi . At
112-622: The North Slope Gas Pipeline Dalton Highway , also known as the North Slope Haul Road Prudhoe Bay Oil Field , colloquially known as "the North Slope" to many who work and visit there Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title North Slope . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
128-539: The Prudhoe Bay Oil Field and neighboring reserves is also a potential source for unconventional tight oil and shale gas – possibly containing "up to 2 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil and up to 80 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to a 2012 U.S. Geological Survey report." Alaska North Slope (ANS) is a more expensive waterborne crude oil. Since 1987, Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude production has been in decline. As of 2020,
144-767: The bottom of the Landsat 7 image on the right, the rugged terrain of the Brooks Range mountains is snow-covered in places (blue areas) and exposed (pink areas) in others. Much of the region is located politically in North Slope Borough , and geographically in the Alaska North Slope basin . On August 12, 2018, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit the region, the most powerful recorded for the Alaskan North Slope. The region includes
160-587: The city of Utqiaġvik to a point just west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Ira Harkey quotes Noel Wien as stating that in the 1920s, "To keep warm and to cook with, the Eskimo was burning hunks of dark stuff he just picked up on the ground all around his tent. This was oil from seepage under the tundra. The Eskimos had always known about the oil, long before there was any drilling for it." The North Slope region includes
176-546: The densest concentration of birds in the Arctic, along with housing substantial amounts of large mammals such as whales, walrus, seals, caribou, and moose. The region includes the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as well as the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (NPRA). Within the North Slope, only a surface "active layer" of the tundra thaws each season; most of the soil is permanently frozen year-round. On top of this permafrost , water flows out to sea via shallow, braided streams or settles into pools and ponds. Along
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#1732765985267192-498: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North_Slope&oldid=846372021 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Alaska North Slope The entire Arctic coastal plain of Alaska with its Arctic coastal tundra has tremendous ecological importance with
208-780: The region is transferred south by means of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System to Valdez on the Pacific Ocean . In 2005 the USGS estimated that the Arctic Alaska Petroleum Province, encompassing all the lands and adjacent Continental Shelf areas north of the Brooks Range-Herald arch (see map) held more than 50 billion bbl of oil and natural-gas liquids and 227 trillion cubic feet of gas. The source rock for
224-471: The time, it was newspaper style convention to refer to white men and women with the "Mr." or "Mrs." honorific but this courtesy was never extended to blacks. Harkey began to add the honorific to black women such as teachers and nurses. He eliminated what was then common practice in Southern newspapers to identify the subjects of an article, if they were black, with the term "colored". Under Harkey's direction,
240-681: Was an American writer, professor of journalism, and editor and publisher of the Pascagoula Chronicle-Star in Mississippi from 1951 to 1963. Harkey was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1963 for his anti-segregation editorials during the civil rights crisis surrounding the admission of James Meredith , a black man, to the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi in 1962. Ira Harkey
256-592: Was born in New Orleans, Louisiana , son of a wealthy businessman. He graduated from Tulane University , where he was a brother with the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Tau Lambda chapter), with an undergraduate degree in journalism in 1941 and then served aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Pacific theater during World War II . After the war, Harkey worked as a reporter for
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