One summer evening in the refuge I sat meditating on a nameless hilltop, looking out at the braided Kongakut River valley and the mountains of the Brooks Range beyond, and found amidst its startling beauty a glimpse of hope and faith in the future of humanity. No matter how industrialized our nation gets, no matter how our resource needs change, I believe we will have the moral courage to keep places like the Arctic Refuge free of development so that future citizens of the world will continue to have the opportunity to meet nature in its wildest form. During my time in the Arctic I learned much about nature from my Native friends, the Gwich'in Athabascan Indians and the Inupiat Eskimos. They shared with me their way of life, their relationship to land and animals. They instilled in me their respect and reverence for nature and their resolve to coexist with the natural world instead of trying to conquer it.

--from Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land by Subhankar Banerjee. The Mountaineers Books, copyright 2003 by Subhankar Banerjee.

Muskox, Canning River Coastal Plain
2001

Caribou Migrating across Frozen Coleen River
2001

Caribou and Calves on the Coastal Plain
2001

Aurora over the Hulahula River
2001

Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Jago River Coastal Plain
2002

East Fork, Chandalar River
2002