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fl-node-5f6e3d25b51a7" data-node="5f6e3d25b51a7"> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b51a8 fl-col-bg-color fl-col-small" data-node="5f6e3d25b51a8"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"></div> </div> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b51a9 fl-col-bg-color fl-col-small" data-node="5f6e3d25b51a9"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"><div class="fl-module fl-module-heading fl-node-5f6e3d25b51ad" data-node="5f6e3d25b51ad"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <h1 class="fl-heading"> <span class="fl-heading-text">IZEMBEK REFUGE</span> </h1> </div> </div> <div class="fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-5f6e3d25b51aa" data-node="5f6e3d25b51aa"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-rich-text"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-5f6e3d25b51bb" data-node="5f6e3d25b51bb"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-rich-text"> <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #ffffff; font-size: 12px;">Photo credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Kristine Sowl</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-row fl-row-fixed-width fl-row-bg-none fl-node-5f6e3d25b51b6 fl-row-default-height fl-row-align-center" data-node="5f6e3d25b51b6"> <div class="fl-row-content-wrap"> <div class="fl-row-content fl-row-fixed-width fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-col-group fl-node-5f6e3d25b51b7" data-node="5f6e3d25b51b7"> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b51b8 fl-col-bg-color" data-node="5f6e3d25b51b8"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"><div class="fl-module fl-module-heading fl-node-5f6e3d25b51b9" data-node="5f6e3d25b51b9"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <h1 class="fl-heading"> <span class="fl-heading-text">WHY TO LOVE THIS PLACE</span> </h1> </div> </div> <div class="fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-5f6e3d25b51ba" data-node="5f6e3d25b51ba"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-rich-text"> <p>The Izembek National Wildlife Refuge is 310,000 acres of land on the Alaska Peninsula located between the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. Despite its remote location and distinction as the state’s smallest national wildlife refuge, Izembek is home to one of the most ecologically unique of Alaska's refuges that protects a wide variety of fish and wildlife species and their habitats.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-row fl-row-full-width fl-row-bg-photo fl-node-5f6e3d25b5187 fl-row-default-height fl-row-align-center" data-node="5f6e3d25b5187"> <div class="fl-row-content-wrap"> <div class="fl-row-content fl-row-full-width fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-col-group fl-node-5f6e3d25b518b fl-col-group-equal-height fl-col-group-align-top" data-node="5f6e3d25b518b"> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b518c fl-col-bg-color fl-col-small" data-node="5f6e3d25b518c"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"><div class="fl-module fl-module-callout fl-node-5f6e3d25b5196" data-node="5f6e3d25b5196"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-callout fl-callout-has-photo fl-callout-photo-below-title"> <div class="fl-callout-content"> <h3 class="fl-callout-title"><span class="fl-callout-title-text">LOCATION</span></h3><div class="fl-callout-photo"><div class="fl-photo fl-photo-align-" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject"> <div class="fl-photo-content fl-photo-img-png"> <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="300" height="295" class="fl-photo-img wp-image-10434" src="https://www.alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/izembekwhitelocations.png" alt="izembekwhitelocations" itemprop="image" title="izembekwhitelocations" /> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-5f6e3d25b5191" data-node="5f6e3d25b5191"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-rich-text"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b51ab fl-col-bg-color fl-col-small" data-node="5f6e3d25b51ab"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"><div class="fl-module fl-module-callout fl-node-5f6e3d25b51ac" data-node="5f6e3d25b51ac"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-callout fl-callout-has-photo fl-callout-photo-above-title"> <div class="fl-callout-content"> <h3 class="fl-callout-title"><span class="fl-callout-title-text">WILDERNESS</span></h3><div class="fl-callout-text-wrap"><div class="fl-callout-text"><p style="text-align: left;">The federally designated Izembek Wilderness makes up nearly the entirety of Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.</p> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b518d fl-col-bg-color fl-col-small" data-node="5f6e3d25b518d"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"><div class="fl-module fl-module-callout fl-node-5f6e3d25b5192" data-node="5f6e3d25b5192"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-callout fl-callout-has-photo fl-callout-photo-above-title"> <div class="fl-callout-content"> <h3 class="fl-callout-title"><span class="fl-callout-title-text">HONK HONK!</span></h3><div class="fl-callout-text-wrap"><div class="fl-callout-text"><p>The entire world population of emperor geese (approx. 70,000) migrates through Izembek Refuge each spring and fall.</p> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b518e fl-col-bg-color fl-col-small" data-node="5f6e3d25b518e"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"><div class="fl-module fl-module-callout fl-node-5f6e3d25b5193" data-node="5f6e3d25b5193"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-callout fl-callout-has-photo fl-callout-photo-above-title"> <div class="fl-callout-content"> <h3 class="fl-callout-title"><span class="fl-callout-title-text">CARIBOU</span></h3><div class="fl-callout-text-wrap"><div class="fl-callout-text"><p style="text-align: left;">The Southern Alaska Peninsula caribou herd moves from its calving grounds north of the refuge to Izembek in late fall to spend the winter.</p> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b518f fl-col-bg-color fl-col-small" data-node="5f6e3d25b518f"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"><div class="fl-module fl-module-callout fl-node-5f6e3d25b5194" data-node="5f6e3d25b5194"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-callout fl-callout-has-photo fl-callout-photo-above-title"> <div class="fl-callout-content"> <h3 class="fl-callout-title"><span class="fl-callout-title-text">DINNER BELL</span></h3><div class="fl-callout-text-wrap"><div class="fl-callout-text"><p style="text-align: left;">During peak salmon runs, as many as nine bears per mile have been observed along Izembek’s salmon-rich streams.</p> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b5190 fl-col-bg-color fl-col-small" data-node="5f6e3d25b5190"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"><div class="fl-module fl-module-callout fl-node-5f6e3d25b5195" data-node="5f6e3d25b5195"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-callout fl-callout-has-photo fl-callout-photo-above-title"> <div class="fl-callout-content"> <h3 class="fl-callout-title"><span class="fl-callout-title-text">WILDLIFE EVERYWHERE</span></h3><div class="fl-callout-text-wrap"><div class="fl-callout-text"><p style="text-align: left;">More than 200 species of wildlife and nine species of fish can be found in Izembek Refuge.</p> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-row fl-row-fixed-width fl-row-bg-none fl-node-5f6e3d25b51a2 fl-row-default-height fl-row-align-center" data-node="5f6e3d25b51a2"> <div class="fl-row-content-wrap"> <div class="fl-row-content fl-row-fixed-width fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-col-group fl-node-5f6e3d25b51a3" data-node="5f6e3d25b51a3"> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b51a4 fl-col-bg-color" data-node="5f6e3d25b51a4"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"><div class="fl-module fl-module-heading fl-node-5f6e3d25b51ae" data-node="5f6e3d25b51ae"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <h2 class="fl-heading"> <span class="fl-heading-text">THE FIGHT TO PROTECT THE IZEMBEK WILDERNESS</span> </h2> </div> </div> <div class="fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-5f6e3d25b51a5" data-node="5f6e3d25b51a5"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-rich-text"> <p>Commercial and private interests have for decades advocated for a road through the heart of Izembek Wilderness in order to build a road connecting the town of King Cove with the village of Cold Bay.</p> <p>Under the Obama administration, following three years of study at a cost of $3 million, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that the proposed road through Izembek Refuge was unnecessary, not in the public’s best interests, and harmful to the refuge lands and wildlife. The agency made a scientifically and legally sound assessment that a road through federally designated wilderness within Izembek Refuge would irreparably harm wetlands of international importance to migratory waterfowl and other important wildlife species and have major negative effects on certain bird species and brown bears.</p> <p>Under the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of the Interior made repeated attempts to push through a land swap intended to trade Izembek Wilderness lands to make way for that road. A deal for a land exchange was made in 2018 by then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, only to be thrown out in court. A similar deal struck in 2019 by then Interior Secretary David Bernhardt was also tossed by the district court.</p> <p>In 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice under President Biden <a href="https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2021/03/10/the-biden-administration-is-backing-a-trump-era-decision-for-a-road-through-alaskas-izembek-national-wildlife-refuge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="6605c3d91f8af9cb262752a8">filed a legal brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals</a> defending the 2019 land exchange between the Interior Department and King Cove’s Alaska Native village corporation. The Ninth Circuit overturned the district court and reinstated the exchange, and the League and our allies have filed for an <a href="https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2017/02/10/En_Banc_Summary2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="6605c3d91f8af9cb262752a8">en banc hearing</a>.</p> <p>In November 2024, the Department of the Interior released a draft supplemental environmental impact statement reviewing a land exchange within Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. If this proposed exchange moves forward, it could fast-track the privatization of lands through designated Wilderness for a road corridor, contrary to the process established by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) – Alaska’s landmark conservation law – for such large decisions.</p> <p>“We are deeply concerned to see this administration revisit such a flawed approach to approving a road corridor through Wilderness in Alaska,” <strong>said Kristen Miller, Executive Director of Alaska Wilderness League.</strong></p> <p>“ANILCA was created to protect public lands from rapid development and privatization. By disregarding ANILCA’s protections, this decision could mark the beginning of a vast erosion of protections for some of Alaska’s most essential Wilderness areas, National Parks, and National Wildlife Refuges — areas renowned for their biodiversity and cultural importance.”</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-row fl-row-full-width fl-row-bg-photo fl-node-5f6e3d25b5197 fl-row-full-height fl-row-align-center fl-row-bg-overlay" data-node="5f6e3d25b5197"> <div class="fl-row-content-wrap"> <div class="fl-row-content fl-row-fixed-width fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-col-group fl-node-5f6e3d25b5198" data-node="5f6e3d25b5198"> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b5199 fl-col-bg-color fl-col-small" data-node="5f6e3d25b5199"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"><div class="fl-module fl-module-callout fl-node-5f6e3d25b519b" data-node="5f6e3d25b519b"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-callout fl-callout-has-photo fl-callout-photo-above-title"> <div class="fl-callout-content"> <h3 class="fl-callout-title"><span class="fl-callout-title-text">IZEMBEK: A WILDERNESS REFUGE</span></h3><div class="fl-callout-text-wrap"><div class="fl-callout-text"><p>Nearly all Izembek National Wildlife Refuge is designated as federal Wilderness. Tundra swans live here year-round. Gray, Minke and killer whales migrate along the coast by the thousands. Hundreds of thousands of salmon begin and end their life cycles on the refuge. The brown bear habitat is unparalleled, and caribou — of the Southern Alaska Peninsula caribou herd — wander through to and from their calving grounds.</p> <p>At the heart of the Wilderness is the 150-square mile Izembek Lagoon, where shallow, brackish water covers one of the world's largest beds of eelgrass, creating a rich feeding and resting area for virtually the entire world population of Pacific black brant, Taverner's Canada goose and emperor goose each fall. Approximately 23,000 threatened Steller's eiders molt, rest and feed at Izembek each autumn. The refuge is also home to land mammals including wolf, fox, wolverine, caribou, moose and brown bears.</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12px;">Photo credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Kristine Sowl</span></p> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b519a fl-col-bg-color fl-col-small" data-node="5f6e3d25b519a"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"><div class="fl-module fl-module-photo fl-node-5f6e3d25b519c" data-node="5f6e3d25b519c"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-photo fl-photo-align-center" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject"> <div class="fl-photo-content fl-photo-img-png"> <img decoding="async" class="fl-photo-img" src="https://alaskawild.org/wp-content/plugins/bb-plugin/img/pixel.png" alt="" itemprop="image" /> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-row fl-row-fixed-width fl-row-bg-none fl-node-5f6e3d25b51af fl-row-default-height 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<div class="fl-post-grid-meta"> <span class="fl-post-grid-author"> By <a href="https://alaskawild.org/blog/author/anja/"><span>Anja Semanco</span></a> </span> <span class="fl-sep"> | </span> <span class="fl-post-grid-date"> May 18, 2023 </span> </div> <div class="fl-post-grid-content"> <p>Today the Department of the Interior published a Notice of Intent to prepare a supplemental environmental review of a possible land exchange involving Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge for a road. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-post-column"> <div class="fl-post-grid-post fl-post-grid-image-above-title fl-post-columns-post fl-post-align-default post-13158 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-in_alaska tag-izembek tag-press-release" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting"> <meta itemscope itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" itemtype="https://schema.org/WebPage" 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class="fl-post-grid-content"> <p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 13, 2023Contact: Aileo Weinmann | aileo@alaskawild.org Alaska Wilderness League Welcomes Action to Protect Izembek National Wildlife Refuge“Alaska’s public lands and waters can provide for current and future generations only if they are protected from irreversible harm”Washington, D.C. – Alaska Wilderness League welcomes Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s announcement today withdrawing a land exchange between…</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-post-column"> <div class="fl-post-grid-post fl-post-grid-image-above-title fl-post-columns-post fl-post-align-default post-12367 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-in_alaska category-uncategorized tag-alaska-native tag-arctic-refuge tag-environmental-justice tag-guest-post tag-gwichin tag-indigenous tag-izembek tag-national-petroleum-reserve-alaska tag-public-land tag-tongass-national-forest" itemscope 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</div> <div class="fl-post-grid-content"> <p>Indigenous people had no word for Wilderness. What are the implications of this increasingly noted fact?</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-post-column"> <div class="fl-post-grid-post fl-post-grid-image-above-title fl-post-columns-post fl-post-align-default post-11187 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-in_alaska category-uncategorized tag-alaska tag-guest-post tag-izembek tag-wildlife" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting"> <meta itemscope itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" itemtype="https://schema.org/WebPage" itemid="https://alaskawild.org/blog/izembek-is-a-wildlife-spectacle-even-by-alaskan-standards/" content="Izembek is a wildlife spectacle, even by Alaskan standards" /><meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2021-03-16" /><meta itemprop="dateModified" content="2021-03-16" /><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="Alaska Wilderness League"><div itemprop="logo" itemscope 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href="https://alaskawild.org/blog/izembek-is-a-wildlife-spectacle-even-by-alaskan-standards/" rel="bookmark" title="Izembek is a wildlife spectacle, even by Alaskan standards"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" src="https://alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/slideshowB-wolf2-Vyn-1280x853-1-300x200.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/slideshowB-wolf2-Vyn-1280x853-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/slideshowB-wolf2-Vyn-1280x853-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/slideshowB-wolf2-Vyn-1280x853-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https://alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/slideshowB-wolf2-Vyn-1280x853-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https://alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/slideshowB-wolf2-Vyn-1280x853-1.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> </a> </div> <div class="fl-post-grid-text"> <h2 class="fl-post-grid-title" itemprop="headline"> <a href="https://alaskawild.org/blog/izembek-is-a-wildlife-spectacle-even-by-alaskan-standards/" title="Izembek is a wildlife spectacle, even by Alaskan standards">Izembek is a wildlife spectacle, even by Alaskan standards</a> </h2> <div class="fl-post-grid-meta"> <span class="fl-post-grid-author"> By <a href="https://alaskawild.org/blog/author/corey/"><span>Corey Himrod</span></a> </span> <span class="fl-sep"> | </span> <span class="fl-post-grid-date"> March 16, 2021 </span> </div> <div class="fl-post-grid-content"> <p>As the debate over a proposed road through the heart of the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge continues, we recognize this wilderness as the wildlife sanctuary it is.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-post-column"> <div class="fl-post-grid-post fl-post-grid-image-above-title fl-post-columns-post fl-post-align-default post-10743 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry 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Alaska.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-post-column"> <div class="fl-post-grid-post fl-post-grid-image-above-title fl-post-columns-post fl-post-align-default post-5480 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized tag-izembek tag-league-post tag-public-land tag-wildlife" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting"> <meta itemscope itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" itemtype="https://schema.org/WebPage" itemid="https://alaskawild.org/blog/beautiful-and-remote-the-izembek-national-wildlife-refuge/" content="Beautiful And Remote, The Izembek National Wildlife Refuge" /><meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2017-06-26" /><meta itemprop="dateModified" content="2022-05-24" /><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="Alaska Wilderness League"><div itemprop="logo" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject"><meta itemprop="url" 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Wildlife Refuge"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="186" src="https://alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Izembek-blog-COVER-300x186.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Izembek-blog-COVER-300x186.jpg 300w, https://alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Izembek-blog-COVER-1024x634.jpg 1024w, https://alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Izembek-blog-COVER-768x475.jpg 768w, https://alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Izembek-blog-COVER.jpg 1050w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> </a> </div> <div class="fl-post-grid-text"> <h2 class="fl-post-grid-title" itemprop="headline"> <a href="https://alaskawild.org/blog/beautiful-and-remote-the-izembek-national-wildlife-refuge/" title="Beautiful And Remote, The Izembek National Wildlife Refuge">Beautiful And Remote, The Izembek National Wildlife Refuge</a> </h2> <div class="fl-post-grid-meta"> <span class="fl-post-grid-author"> By <a href="https://alaskawild.org/blog/author/corey/"><span>Corey Himrod</span></a> </span> <span class="fl-sep"> | </span> <span class="fl-post-grid-date"> June 26, 2017 </span> </div> <div class="fl-post-grid-content"> <p>Located on the coastal side of the central Aleutians East Borough, the beautiful and remote Izembek National Wildlife Refuge was established more than three decades ago to conserve an important habitat for migratory birds, brown bears and salmon, as well as other wildlife.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-module fl-module-post-carousel fl-node-5f6e3d25b51b2" data-node="5f6e3d25b51b2"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-row fl-row-full-width fl-row-bg-photo fl-node-5f6e3d25b519d fl-row-full-height fl-row-align-center fl-row-bg-overlay" data-node="5f6e3d25b519d"> <div class="fl-row-content-wrap"> <div class="fl-row-content fl-row-fixed-width fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-col-group fl-node-5f6e3d25b519e" data-node="5f6e3d25b519e"> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b519f fl-col-bg-color fl-col-small" data-node="5f6e3d25b519f"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"></div> </div> <div class="fl-col fl-node-5f6e3d25b51a0 fl-col-bg-color fl-col-small" data-node="5f6e3d25b51a0"> <div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content"><div class="fl-module fl-module-callout fl-node-5f6e3d25b51a1" data-node="5f6e3d25b51a1"> <div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content"> <div class="fl-callout fl-callout-has-photo fl-callout-photo-above-title"> <div class="fl-callout-content"> <h3 class="fl-callout-title"><span class="fl-callout-title-text">FEATURED WILDLIFE: PACIFIC BLACK BRANT</span></h3><div class="fl-callout-text-wrap"><div class="fl-callout-text"><p><strong>Length:</strong> 23.3 to 24.5 inches (males); 22.2 to 23 inches (females)</p> <p><strong>Weight:</strong> 41.1 to 61.3 ounces (males); 36.2 to 58.1 ounces (females)</p> <p><strong>Wingspan: </strong>41.3 to 42.5 inches</p> <p><strong>Return to the blue lagoon:</strong> The entire Pacific population of black brant, approximately 150,000 birds, can be seen in the Izembek Lagoon area every fall. The brant begin to converge on the area in late August, with numbers peaking in early October. They spend up to eight weeks feasting on eelgrass and preparing for the arduous non-stop migration to their wintering areas in Mexico. Some of the brant depart abruptly in late October or early November, leaving up to 50,000 to brave the stormy winters of the southern Alaska Peninsula.</p> <p><strong>Arctic connection:</strong> Black brant breed in the Arctic on marshlands, islands and tundra. They stop over in similar habitats to molt before migrating south. They then spend their winters on lagoons, estuaries, mudflats and saltmarshes near sand spits, barrier beaches, and ocean shores. Fun fact: Brant are vegetarian in diet, grazing on plants including hairgrass, alkaligrass, marestail, dupontia, saxifrage, sedge, pondweed and arrowgrass, along with various mosses, eelgrass and large green algae.</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12px;">Photo Credit: U.S. FIsh and Wildlife Service, Nathan Graff</span></p> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article>  </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="fl-page-footer-wrap" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/WPFooter" role="contentinfo"> <div class="fl-page-footer-widgets"> <div class="fl-page-footer-widgets-container container"> <div class="fl-page-footer-widgets-row row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-lg-12 fl-page-footer-widget-col fl-page-footer-widget-col-1"><aside id="block-7" class="fl-widget widget_block widget_search"><form role="search" method="get" action="https://alaskawild.org/" class="wp-block-search__button-outside wp-block-search__text-button wp-block-search" ><label class="wp-block-search__label" for="wp-block-search__input-1" >Search</label><div class="wp-block-search__inside-wrapper " ><input class="wp-block-search__input" id="wp-block-search__input-1" placeholder="Looking for something?" value="" type="search" name="s" required /><button aria-label="Search" class="wp-block-search__button wp-element-button" type="submit" >Search</button></div></form></aside></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fl-page-footer"> <div class="fl-page-footer-container container"> <div class="fl-page-footer-row row"> <div class="col-lg-12 text-center clearfix"><div class="fl-page-footer-text fl-page-footer-text-1">© 2022 Alaska Wilderness League <br> 122 C St NW, Ste 650, Washington, DC 20001 | Tel: 202-544-5205 <br> Fax: 202-544-5197 | <a href="mailto:info@alaskawild.org" title="Information Email Address">info@alaskawild.org</a> | <a href="/privacy-policy" title="Privacy Policy">Privacy Policy</a></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </footer> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> function genesisBlocksShare( url, title, w, h ){ var left = ( window.innerWidth / 2 )-( w / 2 ); 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