Selawik National Wildlife Refuge

Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1980 in northwest Alaska on the Arctic Circle, protects about 3,400 square miles where the boreal forest meets Arctic tundra. Its varied landscape includes tundra, taiga, wetlands, river deltas, meadows, glaciated mountains and valleys, and distinctive vegetated sand dunes left by retreating glaciers. Water dominates the refuge, especially around the Selawik and Kobuk River deltas, Selawik Lake, Hotham Inlet, and a vast complex of roughly 21,000 lakes, creating extensive habitat for migratory birds and other wildlife. Caribou, moose, muskox, bears, wolves, and many bird species live here, and its northern section includes the remote Selawik Wilderness.

Selawik, Alaska · United States