Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve protects one of the largest and least-developed landscapes in the United States, a place where the boreal forests of interior Alaska gradually give way to shrub tundra, alpine vegetation, wetlands, wild rivers, and the open Arctic landscapes north of the Brooks Range. Calling Gates of the Arctic …
Category: Gates of the Arctic National Park
Jun 13 2024
Gates of the Arctic National Park
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve protects one of the largest, wildest, and least developed landscapes in the United States. Spread across the central Brooks Range of northern Alaska, this immense Arctic wilderness contains jagged mountains, glacier-carved valleys, tundra, boreal forest, hundreds of lakes, six designated Wild and Scenic Rivers, vast caribou habitat, …
