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 Offers information for Alaska tours, wilderness vacation planning and flightseeing.   This is the naturalist's quintessential high arctic canoe trip.  These clear rivers begin in the high country just north of the Arctic Divide and west of Gates of the Arctic National Park, in the heart of the Western Brooks Range, then meander through the mountains and traverse treeless arctic foothills of NPRA (BLM defacto wilderness, known as the National Petroleum Reserve), meeting the Colville, 's longest river. Steep rugged gorges and cliffs harbor nesting peregrine falcon, gyrfalcon, golden eagle and rough-legged hawk; yellow-throated and arctic loons skim the river. Some of 's richest paleontological sites are here, in this vast grassland, spared the last Continental glaciation. Rocks and cliffs hint at the herds of mastadon, woolly mammoth, tigers and horses that roamed back and forth between Asia and North America. The rivers move along at a fast clip, and we cover lots of country.          2002 Dates: July 29-August 7

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 Offers flightseeing alaska tours and information.   Herds of muskoxen roam the region, nearly 100 species of birds, grizzlies, wolves, Dall sheep and caribou, along with the farthest north moose populations in the U.S. and the farthest north stand of balsam popular trees! The river is normally emerald, and so clear that we see arctic char and grayling swimming 6 feet down. Birds of prey find the Canning attractive for nesting; we're likely to see golden eagles, peregrine falcons, rough-legged hawks, and gyrfalcons. Four of the five arctic species of loons breed here, but the real draw is musk oxen. This is their world; we've seen up to 80 at a time, relaxing in daybeds, or grazing amidst the tussocks. Trip ends just inland from the ocean. Depending on the group's ability, we paddle canoes or rafts.   2002 Dates: July 27-August 5 We paddle 80 miles, winding our way through small rocky rapids, taking time to explore on foot, and sample every habitat on the Arctic Slope. The river bisects ancient seabeds as it carves its way down through limestone canyons.  Some years we float the Canning; in other years the Marsh Fork of the Canning. The two rivers join in a dramatic aufeis-filled valley.    Offers flightseeing and alaska information.