Updated 8/30/99
Vegetation Photos
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White Spruce Parkland with the Alaska Range in the background. Taken from the Denali Highway. (Photo: L.B. Brubaker) |
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Typical muskeg of black spruce (light green) with white spruce on the better drained soils near the river. Taken near Fairbanks, Alaska. (Photo: L.B. Brubaker) |
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Black spruce forest near the Copper River, Alaska. (Photo: L.B. Brubaker) |
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Larch forest near Sosednee Lake, upper Kolyma region of northeast Siberia, Russia. (Photo: L.B. Brubaker) |
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Stone pine (Pinus pumila) tundra, Russia. (Photo: P.M. Anderson) |
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Larch and stone pine near Sosednee Lake in the upper Kolyma region of northeast Siberia, Russia. (Photo: P.M. Anderson) |
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Lake edge and hillside showing alder thickets (dark on hillside) and balsam poplar trees on the flat next to the lake. (Photo: L.B. Brubaker) |
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Larch (Larix dahurica) - Birch (Betula paperifera) forest in upper Kolyma region, Russia. (Photo: A.V. Lozhkin) |
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Larch (Larix dahurica) - lichen forest in the upper Kolyma region, Russia. (Photo: A.V. Lozhkin) |
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Yerniki (shrub tundra) in Northern Chukotka. (Photo: A.V. Lozhkin) |
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Bryales mounds on Wrangel Island. (Photo: A.V. Lozhkin) |
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Larch (Larix dahurica) forest in the fall. Upper Kolyma region, Russia. (Photo: A.V. Lozhkin) |
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Tussock Tundra, northern Chukotka. (Photo: A.V. Lozhkin) |
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Polar desert, Wrangel Island. (Photo: A.V. Lozhkin) |
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Polar desert, Wrangel Island. (Photo: A.V. Lozhkin) |