Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge

Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge is a vast protected landscape in interior Alaska built around the broad floodplain of the Nowitna River. Its forests, wetlands, lakes, marshes, and surrounding hills create a transition from winding lowland river country to alpine tundra. Covering about 2,100,000 acres of largely undisturbed habitat, it protects most of the river’s course and supports diverse fish, abundant breeding waterfowl, migratory birds, and mammals ranging from moose and wolves to black and grizzly bears. The refuge is also a long-used human landscape, where Koyukon Athabascans have depended for centuries on hunting, fishing, trapping, and other subsistence activities.

Ruby, Alaska · United States