Field notes from the edge of the wild.

Selected Writing

Six pieces worth your evening.

None of these were written by us. They were written by ornithologists, photographers, and conservationists who came here and tried to put the place into words. We think they got close.

• Izembek Lagoon
  Living Bird · The Cornell Lab of Ornithology2020

  Photo Essay: Izembek Refuge Is A Wildlife Spectacle, Even By Alaskan Standards

  By Gerrit Vyn

  At the far end of the Alaska Peninsula, where land gives way to the Bering Sea, nearly the entire Pacific population of black brant gathers in a lagoon most people have never heard of. A cinematic, image-rich tour through Izembek in all its wild beauty.

  Izembek LagoonBirdsWildlifeSeasons

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• Izembek Lagoon
  Alaska Magazine2020

  Izembek National Wildlife Refuge — Photo Gallery

  By Gerrit Vyn

  The Aghileen Pinnacles, Mount Dutton, and the spectacular volcanic peaks ringing Izembek Lagoon — a portfolio of images from a photographer who spent a season inside one of America's least-visited wilderness areas.

  Izembek LagoonWeatherSeasons

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• Aleutian Coast
  Alaska Wilderness League2017

  Beautiful and Remote: The Izembek National Wildlife Refuge

  A field portrait of the coastal refuge on the Aleutians East Borough — a sanctuary for migratory birds, brown bears, salmon, and red fox, established to protect one of the most important staging grounds on the Pacific Flyway.

  Aleutian CoastWildlifeBirds

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• Izembek Lagoon
  Alaska Wilderness League2021

  Izembek Is A Wildlife Spectacle, Even By Alaskan Standards

  By Gerrit Vyn

  A long-form feature on the wilderness, the wildlife, and the proposed road through the heart of the refuge — and why this place is worth protecting exactly as it is.

  Izembek LagoonWildlifeBirds

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• Cold Bay
  Defenders of Wildlife · Wild Without End2019

  Izembek: A National Wildlife Refuge System Gem

  Why this 315,000-acre refuge at the end of the Alaska Peninsula — its eelgrass beds, its lagoon, its brown bears, and its skies full of migrating geese — is one of the crown jewels of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

  Cold BayWildlifeBirdsSeasons

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• Aleutian Coast
  Alaska Department of Fish and GameField guide

  Wildlife Viewing at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge

  An official guide to the refuge — what to see, where to see it, and when. Pacific brant, emperor geese, tundra swans, brown bears, and sea otters, set against one of the most dramatic coastlines in North America.

  Aleutian CoastWildlifeBirds

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