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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Active and Adventure Travel Guide |
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Active and Adventure Travel Guide
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Polar bears in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska (courtesy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge protects the most spectacular array of arctic plants, wildlife, and land forms in the world. Designed to embrace the range of the great Porcupine caribou herd, the Arctic is also home to free-roaming herds of muskox, Dall sheep, packs of wolves, and such solitary species as wolverines and polar and grizzly bears. Why this concentration? Well, even though the refuge is immense, the habitats are actually extremely compressed. The highest mountain lies just 50 miles from the sea coast. In between range the lower peaks, glacial valleys, foothills, and the fabled coastal plain.
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