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Summary

Fort Wainwright Training Lands in Central Alaska have been dedicated to the army mission since the early 1960s with consistent military training to support worldwide deployment. Fort Wainwright’s Donnelly Training Area encompasses over 25,000 acres of maneuver terrain specifically designed for live-fire training of the 1/25th Stryker Brigade. This training area is ideal for missions pertaining to mobilization, off road combat vehicle exercises, and excavation of maneuver positions. The terrain that is ideal for army training activities was also ideal for hunting and camping over the last 14,000 years. Approximately 200 archaeological sites are located within the maneuver corridor. In 2016, a multinational training with over 8000 soldiers was carried out in this area. The Fort Wainwright Cultural Resource Management Team created and implemented a protection plan to minimize adverse effects to archaeological sites within the boundaries of the exercise with large success.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 22675