A group of hikers walk through verdent upland peatbog and northern coastal temperate rainforest along the shores of College Fiord Chugach Mountains behind
Mount Gilbert in the Chugach Mountains towers over verdent upland peatbog and northern coastal temperate rainforest that line the shores of College Fiord
Mount Columbia and the Columbia Glacier stand behind a visitor photographing beautiful icebergs trapped in Columbia Bay by the old terminal moraine at the head of the bay
A muskox (Ovibus muschatus) looks up from browsing on willow during an autumn snowstorm on the arctic tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
A muskox (Ovibus muschatus) looks up from browsing on willow during an autumn snowstorm on the arctic tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
A group of muskoxen (Ovibus muschatus) looks up from browsing on willow during an autumn snowstorm on the arctic tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
Muskoxen cow and calf (Ovibus muschatus) look up from browsing on willow during an autumn snowstorm on the arctic tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
A Muskox(Ovibus muschatus) looks up from browsing on willow during an autumn snowstorm on the arctic tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
A bull Muskox(Ovibus muschatus) curls his upper lip scenting for cows in heat, during an autumn snowstorm on the arctic tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) peers over the top of a bowhead whale skull while scavenging fat off a bowhead whale carcass. A glaucous gull hovers nearby. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
Baleen from a bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) taken by Inupiat hunters in the village of Kaktovik, located in northern Alaska on the Beaufort Sea coast
Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) meat, muktuk and internal organs from a whale recently taken by Inupiat hunters in the village of Kaktovik on the Beaufort Sea coast of Alaska