The Noatak drainage provides a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary research of arctic environmental processes and the cultural history of Native people who have maintained a relationship with the land for over 10,000 years. It protects the largest stand of boreal forest in northwest Alaska north of the Arctic Circle. Bering Land Bridge National Preserve Is a remnant of the land bridge that connected Asia and North America between 11,000 and 25,000 years ago. Volcanic lava flows and ash explosions in an arctic landscape permit the study of the effects of volcanic activity in permafrost conditions and post volcanic landscape recovery in the arctic environment. Contains the four largest maar craters on earth.
Trail Creek caves is one of one of Alaska's earliest records of human occupation.
The combined resources provide the opportunity to study, in cooperation with Native Alaskans, the evidence of the intercontinental migration of humans, plants and animals between Asia and North America. Serpentine Hot Springs, where shamans once trained, has long been recognized by Native Alaskans for spiritual and medicinal values. Natural and cultural resources and associated values are protected, restored and maintained in good condition and managed within their broader ecosystem and cultural context. Threats to resources are addressed and actions undertaken as prudent and appropriate. Consumptive use of wildlife will be managed so that there is no significant human influence on healthy populations in Preserves and healthy and natural populations in the Park and Monument.