ARCTIC REFUGE SERIES

“We have a unique opportunity to preserve something that is in danger of vanishing—a whole and natural place, a true wilderness, where the birds are at home and we are visitors.”
--David Allen Sibley














AUTUMN ON TAIGA















UNNAMED LAKE
“The refuge is so remote and untamed that many peaks, valleys, and lakes are still without names and shall remain that way. Marsh fleabane cluster along the lakeshore, while Nichenthraw Mountain and spruce trees are reflected on the calm water of early morning.”
--Subhankar Banerjee














CARIBOU AND CALVES
“Ralph Waldo Emerson called wilderness ‘uncontained and immortal beauty’ for the simple reason that wilderness was free. That is what makes the coastal plain so beautiful and so valuable. The wildlife great and small— caribou, polar bears, voles and vetch—live as they have for centuries.”
--William H. Meadows