CEMML develops massive map for military training exercise

For a recent large-scale training event at the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, an equally large-scale map was needed to facilitate the training work. CEMML staff were called upon to deliver a 49-foot by 26-foot map of three Army training areas near Fairbanks. Despite tight deadlines, CEMML staff from multiple Alaskan installations came together to assemble the map just in time for the training.

April 10, 2026

Supporting Environmental decision making in Alaska since 1992

Responsible for over 1.6 million acres of Army-managed land, CEMML helps military leaders at Fort Wainwright make the best environmental decisions for the long-term preservation of the vast natural and cultural resources on their active training lands. The depth and breadth of CEMML’s work at Fort Wainwright requires equally extensive collaborative efforts. In the last […]

September 25, 2020

CEMML archaeologists unearthing human roots in Alaska

CEMML Archeologist Julie Esdale and her team have uncovered tools, weapons and the remains of bison, mammoth, elk and other large game at sites used over and over again for centuries by nomadic hunters in the region. The discovered sites are located on 1.6 million acres of land at Fort Wainwright, just southeast of Fairbanks.

September 15, 2017

Middle Holocene Discoveries at the Donnelly Training Area

Julie Esdale, a CEMML Archaeologist on site at the Environmental Division of the U.S. Army Garrison Fort Wainwright, Alaska, works with a team of researchers that use spatial analysis (among other methods) to study the evidence left by human occupation on these lands thousands of years ago. The PDF of this article is available here: […]

October 19, 2015