Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska
Taken on Aug. 8, 2005
This landscape at the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge shows one of the lusher portions of the Ahklun and Kilbuck Mountains, with a broad U-shaped glacial valley, filled with lakes and meandering streams, surrounded by forested slopes, the forests opening to scrub, tundra, and ultimately barren rock above. Even in late summer, some snow remains, but the peaks are so steep and peaks are mostly isolated, such that there are few remaining glaciers in this area.
