Innoko National Wildlife Refuge

Innoko National Wildlife Refuge is a vast protected area in western Alaska established in 1980, encompassing 3,850,481 acres and including 1,240,000 acres of designated wilderness. The fifth-largest national wildlife refuge in the United States, it is administered from Galena and spans two main regions: the Kaiyuh Flats along the Yukon River and a larger area surrounding the Innoko River. Much of the refuge is swampy wetland, supporting nesting birds and an especially rich ecosystem used by hundreds of thousands of birds, including ospreys, trumpeter swans, bald eagles, and owls. Its remote, roadless landscape also shelters bears, moose, wolves, caribou, otters, wolverines, and lynx.

Shageluk, Alaska · United States