Below are the boundaries of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Guide Use Areas within the National Wildlife Refuges in the State of Alaska. Note that the boundaries available here represent the outermost, external boundary of the guide use areas. Internal boundaries between refuge/wilderness and private parcels of land are not depicted in these files. For the boundaries of private parcels within the guide use areas, refer to the online USFWS Region 7 Land Mapper, or the downloadable land status file at https://www.fws.gov/GISdownloads/R7/GIS-Data/Land-Status/Generalized.

Guide Use Area boundaries are available in two formats:

ESRI Shapefile

Shapefiles can be used in ArcGIS, other GIS mapping programs that support shapefiles, and other programs, such as Google Earth Pro, which support the shapefile format.

KMZ

The KMZ format is the native format for Google Earth. This format can also be used by other programs, such as ArcGIS Earth, that support KML/KMZ files.

 

ArcGIS Earth is a free program, similar in function to Google Earth, however ArcGIS Earth often has higher-resolution satellite imagery and aerial photography than does Google Earth.

 

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Guide Use Area Boundaries

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The Region 7 Land Mapper was developed, and is maintained by, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Region 7, Division of Realty. Questions, comments,and suggestions should be directed to ak_realty@fws.gov

This page was last updated:  Thursday, March 13, 2025