Today I went to the visitor's center at the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is 19 million acres, or about 6 times the size of Connecticut (~3.5 million acres).
The visitor's center was really nice. Here are some pictures that I took:
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It means something like "Thank you for coming" in Yup'ik. Quyana means "thank you". |
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stuffed stuff and salmons |
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cross-section of the soil. On the side it says "Wet soil", "Peat", "Leach layers" and then the gray layer on the bottom is permafrost. |
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Topographical map of the area. It's pretty flat. |
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There's Bethel! On the Kuskokwim. |
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