Colville River (Alaska)
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The Colville River is a major river of the Arctic Ocean coast of Alaska in the United States, approximately 350 miles long. One of the northernmost major rivers in North America, it drains a remote ar
A caribou standing on the banks of the Colville River. Thousands of caribou live on or around the river during the summer months, and provide a traditional source of subsistence food for the region's Iñupiat communities.
A paleontologist holds a newly discovered fossil dinosaur tooth on the Colville River. Annual erosion of the crumbling Colville River bluffs causes fossils to spill onto the riverbanks every year. A scientific government-issued permit is required for fossil collection.
Packrafter floating near a polar bear on the Colville River delta, 2013.
The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska is an area of land on the Alaska North Slope owned by the United States federal government and managed by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Manag
Colville River (Alaska)
…America, it drains a remote area of tundra on the north side of the Brooks Range entirely above the Arctic Circle in the southwestern corner of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The river is frozen for more than half the year and floods each spring.The Colville River and its adjacent hills are home to a variety of Arctic…
A picture of the NPRA area looking very similar to a more southern wetland.
Syncline ridges in southwestern NPRA.
Special areas in the NPRA