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Red fox photos, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Red fox kit silhouette, Arctic National wildlife refuge, alaska

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Wildlife in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge. This is a red fox kit, taken just a hundred yards or so from where we camped along the Canning river on the coastal plain. This photo was taken around 3am. It was pretty cloudy and overcast, but the clouds didn’t go all the way to northern horizon, so eventually there was a little break, where the sun dipped just below the cloudline towards the horizon, (more…)

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Posted in ANWR, Alaska, Environmental Issues, Foxes, Wildlife | 4 Comments »

Coastal Plain, Section 1002, ANWR, Alaska.

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Arctic wildflowers, coastal plain, ANWR, Alaska

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Here’s a photo of the arctic coastal plain, near the Canning River, ANWR, Alaska. This is the now infamous ‘coastal plain’, known as Section 1002, the area that is so frequently proposed be open for oil drilling. One of the big arguments made in favor of opening the area to drilling is that the coastal plain is ‘boring’, or ‘empty’, or ‘nothing’. I disagree that it’s boring. I found it stimulating - the place simply feels alive, vibrant. There’s an energy here (more…)

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Posted in ANWR, Adventures, Alaska, Backpacking and Hiking, Environmental Issues, Landscape features, Rafting, Travel | 7 Comments »

Coastal plain photo, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Coastal plain, Canning River, Sec 1002, ANWR, Alaska

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Next I’m going to do a short series on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, known as ANWR, in Alaska. I’m sure most of the readers here are reasonably well versed in the situation in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with the seemingly constant proposals to open the coastal plain to oil drilling. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, a quick summary would go like this:

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge sits in Alaska’s far northeast, extending from south of the Continental Divide in the Brooks Mountain Range, north over the Divide, stretching across the coastal plain to the Beaufort Sea and the Arctic Ocean. (more…)

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Whitewater kayaking, Baker River, Chile

Friday, April 27th, 2007

whitewater kayaker, Baker River, Patagonia, Chile.

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Here’s another of my buddy Matze, running a little drop on the Baker River, in Patagonia, Chile. The Baker River is absolutely awesome, 4 or 5 of the biggest Class 5 rapids anywhere. It’s huge water. I was fortunate that some of my friends were nice enough to get out of bed early one morning and come run the Baker in nice light. Matze took this crazy line after doing some scouting - it wasn’t his smoothest line, but he made it OK. (more…)

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