American Bald eagle and salmon in the Chilkat Valley, Haines, Alaska
Chum Salmon and Grizzly Bears in Fishing Branch Park, Yukon, Canada. Known as ice bears, because they fish for salmon in early winter and get covered in icicles. Bear Cave Mountain eco-tours. The salmon have migrated over 1500 miles up the Yukon, Porcupine and Fishing Branch River.
Porcupine Caribou caught by a camera trap during their winter migration in Northern, Yukon, Canada. Bull Caribou in the boreal forest. The caribou calving grounds in Alaska's ANWR are threatened by potential oil and gas development.
Red Fox feasting on a caribou carcass in the snow covered winter tundra of Northern, Canada. Near Dawson City and the Dempster Highway, Yukon. Barren Ground caribou near the Dempster Highway in Yukon, Canada.
A cow caribou from the Forty Mile caribou herd jumps out of a river and up onto the bank during their migration from their calving grounds. The forty mile caribou once stood at over 500,000 animals, but overhunting and development devasted that herd dropping the number to 5,000 animals in the 1970s. Through conservation efforts the herd is recovering and sits at around 50,000 animals.
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