Keith Ramos took this stellar photo of the Arora Borealis over the Nowitna River in the Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. This photo was submitted to the 2012 National Wildlife Refuge Association photo contest. To see more entries, click here.
The Lake Clark National Park and Preserve recently held a photo contest on their Facebook page. Congratulations to Kevin Kifer and his winning photograph above! You can see the full list of entries here.
This is the coolest spot for a Christmas Tree that we’ve ever seen. This is in Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska.
Photo: National Park Service
Explore a dynamic wilderness dotted with hot springs, ancient lava flows, and the largest maar lakes in the world at Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. Ramble across tundra seeking muskox, caribou, and signs of ice age life. The Bering Land Bridge provided a pathway for plants, animals, and people to cross from old world to new. Today local residents use this land just as their ancestors have for generations.
Photo: National Park Service
At 13.2 million acres which is bigger than the country of Switzerland, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve stretches from one of the tallest peaks in North America, Mount St. Elias (18,008) to the ocean. Yet within this wild landscape, people have been living off the land for centuries and still do today. The park is a rugged yet inviting place to experience your own adventure.
Photo: National Park Service
Our friends at the Alaska Volcano Observatory take earth science to the extreme. In this photo Rick Wessels is acquiring thermal images of the dome on Lake Clark National Park’s Redoubt Volcano with a state of the art (and fun to use!) tool known as the FLIR.
Photo: Game McGimsey - AVO/USGS.
Treat yourself with a visit to a national wildlife refuge during National Wildlife Refuge Week, from October 14-20. Celebrate America’s wildlife heritage, and see what wildlife refuges are doing to conserve it.
Since Theodore Roosevelt established the first national wildlife refuge in 1903, the National Wildlife Refuge System has become the nation’s premier habitat conservation network, encompassing 150 million acres in 556 refuges and 38 wetland management districts. Every state has at least one national wildlife refuge. There is a national wildlife refuge within an hour’s drive of most major cities.
This photo is of Becharof National Wildlife Refuge, which was established to conserve brown bears, salmon, migratory birds, caribou, marine birds, and mammals; to fulfill treaty obligations; to provide for continued subsistence uses; and to ensure necessary water quality and quantity.
Photo: Julia Pinnix
Everyone loves a photo of a baby walrus right? Mitik and Pakak are orphaned Walruses found in Alaska this past July. On the recommendation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, they are being transferred to the New York Aquarium and Indianapolis Zoo.
Read more about Mitik and Pakak here.
Photo: Alaska SeaLife Center
On an island amid towering spruce and hemlock, Sitka National Historical Park preserves the site of a watershed battle between invading Russian traders and indigenous Kiks.ádi Tlingit; park visitors are awed by Tlingit and Haida totem poles standing along the park’s scenic coastal trail; and the restored Russian Bishop’s House speaks of Russia’s little known colonial legacy in North America.
Three cheers to Sitka NP annual photo contest first place winner Ernest Manewal and his photo titled “Sitka National Historic Park and Tide Pools at Sunset.” A great photo if you ask us!
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