#brooks range

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The start of a 3 day hike though Brooks Range. Alaska 1974

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Dalton Highway, through the Brooks Range

Taken June 2023

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Caribou, or tutu in Inupiat, traverse the snowy heart of Alaska’s Brooks Range. Each spring, caribou all across the North American Arctic begin extraordinary migrations toward their calving grounds.

Photographs by Katie Orlinsky

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Audubon Alert: Defend Alaska's Brooks Range From Ambler Road

Take action and urge the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to prevent the construction of Ambler Road, and protect the communities and wildlife

The Brooks Range is essential for the Alaska Native peoples who live, hunt, and fish in Northwest Alaska. It's home to the world's only remaining populations of migrating caribou, and dozens of migratory and boreal bird species, from Blackpoll Warblers to Arctic Loons. The Ambler Road proposal puts the Brooks Range and everything within it at risk. If built, this will not be a simple road, but a 211-mile industrial corridor that would threaten North America's largest protected and roadless region, as well as the food security and clean water of Alaska Native Tribes. It will cut through 1,200 river crossings, thousands of acres of wetlands, and migration pathways.

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Brooks Range, Alaska

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The Eastern Part of the Brooks Range, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, USA, Sebastião Salgado, 2009

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Exploring northern Alaska under the scenic mountains of the Brooks Range. Hundreds of Kilometers above the Arctic circle, these mountains run east-west and stretch around 1100 km across northern Alaska and into the Canadian Yukon Territory. 

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natgeo Video & stills - @andy_bardon /// A few wintery aerials from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This fragile ecosystem is home to more than 250 animal species and our team came across caribou, bears, foxes, and sheep while we were in the field collecting data. Tucked into the tax bill approved Wednesday by Congress is a provision that opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. Jimmy Carter created the refuge in late 1980 and recognized, "Alaska's wilderness areas are truly this country's crown jewels..." With the stroke of a pen its future has just changed. /// I collected this footage as our bush plane flew deep into the heart of the Brooks Range to drop us off for a two week expedition. Swipe right to see some stills from our climbs on the highest peaks in the range. Our team used cutting edge technology to measure the rate of glacial change and to accurately measure the highest summits in the refuge. Our trip was made possible by a grant from @natgeo /// Follow @andy_bardon for more imagery of wild places