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    Alaska has opportunities in fishing, mineral extraction, and tourism but also faces challenges. Fishing and tourism are seasonal due to cold temperatures that drop below -9 degrees, and 90% of tax revenue comes from oil and gas. Alaska has a low population density of less than 1 person per square kilometer and infrastructure like the trans-Alaskan pipeline must be elevated to prevent damage from melting permafrost.

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    Alaska has opportunities in fishing, mineral extraction, and tourism but also faces challenges. Fishing and tourism are seasonal due to cold temperatures that drop below -9 degrees, and 90% of tax revenue comes from oil and gas. Alaska has a low population density of less than 1 person per square kilometer and infrastructure like the trans-Alaskan pipeline must be elevated to prevent damage from melting permafrost.

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    Alaska has opportunities in fishing, mineral extraction, and tourism but also faces challenges. Fishing and tourism are seasonal due to cold temperatures that drop below -9 degrees, and 90% of tax revenue comes from oil and gas. Alaska has a low population density of less than 1 person per square kilometer and infrastructure like the trans-Alaskan pipeline must be elevated to prevent damage from melting permafrost.

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    Opportunities Challenges
    Fishing  fishing is seasonal (not all year round)
    because it gets too cold
     3 million lakes
     3000 rivers  temperature gets to about -9
     1 in 10 people employed for fishing degrease
     Has some of the biggest fisheries,
     90% of tax comes from oil and gas
    salmon, crab
     78.5 thousand people are employed  Tourism is seasonal (not all year
    within fishing itself round)
     $6 billion to the USA
     Lack of sunlight
     Sustainable
     In accessibility – expensive
    Mineral extraction
     Permafrost
     1/5th of wealth comes from gold
     $2.2 billion of Alaska’s GDP  Low population- les than 1 person per
     Energy over ½ of income comes from square km
    oil and gas
     Trans-Alaskan pipeline built on stilts
    Tourism to not melt the frost and prevent oil
    spills
     Amazing scenery and wildlife
     2 million visitor each year  Low sun low building rates – houses
     Increased employment can only be built in the summer

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