Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refugee, Alaska, Yukon, Porcupine Caribou Herd, 1002 lands

Images from the 2016 biannual Gwichin Gathering in Arctic Village, Alaska.

The Gwich'in Gathering in Old Crow, Yukon. A gathering of all the Gwich'in First Nation (Aboriginal Peoples) from Yukon, Alaska, and NWT held in 2014 in the community of Old Crow on the banks of the Porcupine River. It is a cultural gathering where people also discuss important issues like the threat of oil and gas development in the calving ground of the Porcupine Caribou Herd in Alaska's ANWR.

Hunting Porcupine Caribou Herd with Vuntut Gwich'in aboriginal people near the community of Old Crow, Yukon, Canada.

Porcupine caribou migration Blow River.

Hunting Porcupine Caribou Herd with Vuntut Gwich'in aboriginal people near the community of Old Crow, Yukon, Canada.

Oil Infrastructure from Alaska's Arctic Coastline, Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields. Alyeska Oil pipeline that goes from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Valdez.

Ice cave near Kluane National Park.

Porcupine Caribou Herd ~ Rangifer tarandus granti ~ are a barren ground caribou herd numbering over 179,000 members ~ they winter in the Yukon, Alaska and Northwest Territories ~ During their annual spring migration to their calving grounds in Canada's Ivvavik National Park and Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ~ they are thought to have the longest land mammal migration in the world ~ aerial images of migration during spring

Hunting Porcupine Caribou Herd with Vuntut Gwich'in aboriginal people near the community of Old Crow, Yukon, Canada.