Trans Alaska Pipeline

 

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Tundra Vegetation

 

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Dryas flowers

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Severe Permafrost Thaw

This was still flat tundra in the 1960s.  Soil disturbance for construction of the Dalton Highway started the ground thawing downstream. The soil drained and subsided, and still collapses and thaws laterally. 

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Nesting Goose

I was not as close to the goose as the picture might appear, as I shot this picture with a telephoto lens.

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