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Arctic Plunder: Birding the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

We put our raft in on the Upper Marsh Fork River under cloudy skies cloaking the 9,000-foot limestone peaks of the 700-mile-long Brooks Range in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in northern Alaska. The bush plane that dropped us off with 400 pounds of gear left us on a field of dewy tundra for a […]

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Too Many to Count: Shorebird Migration at the Copper River Delta, Alaska

While overlooking the mudflats of Alaska’s Copper River Delta, I was reduced to being a slack-jawed gaper. It was May 4, high tide, and thousands upon thousands of shorebirds clustered just feet away. I should have been able to make a guess about how many there were, but I couldn’t. My skills as a field

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