For Educators
The King Salmon Visitor Center is a great place to begin your visit to the Refuge. The Center is located at the King Salmon Airport and is open year-round from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Visitor Center has an information/trip planning desk, exhibits and interactive programs, audio-visual room featuring wildlife films, and an outlet of the Alaska Geographic, a store offering educational books and numerous air/sea navigation charts and topographic maps. Information about air charter services and fishing/hunting guides licensed to operate on public lands can be obtained at the Visitor Center.
Outreach activities include many other methods of communicating with refuge audiences. Among these are working with the news media, conducting public meetings and workshops, inviting the public to the Refuges (open houses), and one-on-one communication.
The Refuge environmental education education and interpretation program includes a visitor center, environmental outreach at local schools, an annual science camp for high school students, and other activities. The King Salmon Visitor Center (KSVC) at the King Salmon Airport is a cooperative venture among the Refuge, Katmai/Aniakchak National Park, Monument, and Preserves, the Bristol Bay Borough, and the Lake and Peninsula Borough. The KSVC provides information to enhance the experience of thousands of visitors each year, as well as providing a valued information resource to the local community. The KSVC also holds special activities for the local community during National Wildlife Refuge Week. The Refuge Information Technicians regularly present environmental education programs and materials to classes in the schools of the communities local to the Refuge. Each year the Refuge holds a five-day residential science camp at the Bible Camp area on Becharof Lake. High-school students from local communities, as well as their biology teacher, join Refuge and King Salmon Fish & Wildlife Office staff and other resource experts to study fishery and wildlife biology and techniques, and Native traditional knowledge and culture.
Last updated: April 30, 2008
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