A young unidentified reindeer herder of Sovkhoz “Panaevskoye” (Iamal Peninsula, Russia) selecting the fastest reindeer from his herd to participate in sled races held on the occasion of the International Seminar EALÁT - Reindeer Husbandry, Traditional Knowledge and Adaptation to Climate Change and Loss of Pastures. (International Polar Year Arctic Council EALÁT-Network Study), August, 2009.

Photo: Konstantin Klokov

Pair of Barnacle Geese in flight near a nesting site on Maly Fiskar Island, eastern Gulf of Finland.
Photo: Sergei Kouzov, 21 June 2010

Polar bears harvested in Scoresby Sound (Ittoqqortoormiit), East Greenland.
Photo: Rune Dietz

A suspected grizzly bear–polar bear hybrid initially observed with a grizzly bear in the Wynniatt Bay region of Victoria Island in 2012.
Photo: Jodie Pongracz

University of Alaska Fairbanks student Emily Hauer Vockeroth combing qiviut fleece from “Red,” a tame muskox at the Robert G. White Large Animal Research Station, Fairbanks, Alaska, in May 2000.
Photo: Janice Rowell

View across the Point Riche Peninsula, Newfoundland—an archaeological landscape that Priscilla Renouf investigated for many years.
Photo: Patricia Wells

Zoe Panchen counting the number of open flowers on tagged plants to determine start, peak, finish, and duration of flowering of purple saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia) at Lake Hazen, Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, Nunuvut Canada. Photo: C. Casey

A small band of caribou crossing Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, north-central Alaska, in April. A planned industrial road passing just south of the Brooks Range and this band of caribou, which will link the existing road system to a remote mining district, could affect the region’s subsistence harvesting, of which caribou is a critical component. Photo: Kyle Joly

Long-tailed Duck on the Colville River Delta, Alaska. © U.S. Geological Survey. Photo: Ryan Askren

Gas seeps mapped by NOAA’s vessel of exploration Okeanos Explorer off the northern California margin (Gardner et al., 2009). Image produced by the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, University of New Hampshire

Grizzly bear on the Dempster Highway in August 2014. Photo: Scott Zolkos