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Tundra Swan, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

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Another Tundra Swan, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

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I wanted to follow my previous post with this photo, showing the environment and landbase the tundra swan lives within.This is the same bird, in the same pond, from almost the exact same spot – but this photo was taken with a wider lens (Nikon 70-200mm).

I love tight, close-up portraits of wildlife (and people) but I always enjoy a photo showing the subject in place. I think of ‘in place’ as reference to the greater scope of what we mean by ‘nature’. When we closely consider the world around us, we begin to see that these creatures and features we share this existence with do not live in isolation, and aren’t, in fact, separate from one another.

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Red fox photos, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska

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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, lit up the land for about 20 minutes, then it began it’s climb back into the sky and disappeared behind the cloud cover.

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Coastal Plain, Section 1002, ANWR, Alaska

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Arctic wildflowers, coastal plain, ANWR, Alaska
The Coastal Plain, Section 1002, in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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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.

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Coastal plain photo, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

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

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This is all about 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.

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