Cache River National Wildlife Refuge was built in 1986 to preserve significant wetland habitats and provide a secure area for migratory ducks to feed and rest. These special wetlands are so valuable that they are recognized as important international wetlands. The refuge covers more than …

Nowitna River’s floodplain, a lowland basin of marshes and woodlands, forms the centre of the Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge. The climate of the refuge is often characterized by little precipitation, calm winds, long, chilly winters, and brief, somewhat pleasant summers. Alpine tundra covers the slopes …

Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge encompasses 3.5 million acres and is located in the Koyukuk River’s floodplain, in a basin that stretches from the Yukon River to the Purcell Mountains and the foothills of the Brooks Range. Bears, wolves, lynx, and marten roam this area’s wooded …

Kodiak is a rugged, beautiful island on the coast of southwestern Alaska. Established in 1941, the refuge provides brown bears, salmon, and other wildlife habitat. Kodiak has beautiful mountains, hundreds of miles of shoreline, lakes, marshes, bogs, and meadows. Fjord-like inlets surround four-thousand-foot Mountains. Sedges, …

The land on which the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge resides is relatively young geologically speaking, having been covered by glacial ice as recently as 10,000 years ago. Some of that ice sheet remains today in the form of the Harding Ice Field which is shared …

Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Kobuk Valley National Park, Noatak National Preserve, and Bering Land Bridge National Preserve together conserve over 11.8 million acres of arctic and subarctic wilderness. The Noatak and Kobuk rivers are two of the finest in all of North America for canoeing …