Downloadable Documents for Naturalist in Alaska Tours
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"A Naturalist in Alaska" with NatureAlaska Tours (C) 2006
"A bear."
Seeing a bear creates more excitement than any wildlife in Alaska. Finding a wildlife tour led by a professional guide and biologist is the best way to see a bear in Denali or along the Dalton Highway.
A connection with wildlife
A connection with wildlife is part of the earliest human experience. Today, watching and learning about wildlife are center-stage activities. NatureAlaska's signature "Wildlife Search Series"" ensures a wider range of wildlife viewing than any north to south nature tour in Alaska.
Alaska is the great northwestern peninsula of North America. One mountain range after another radiate in giant sweeping arcs. These northern ecosystems encompass a wide range of ecologic and geologic settings, floristic zones, latitudes and climates to create taiga, tundra and marine biomes - the wildlife habitats - of Alaska. The Wildlife Search Series" focuses on these habitats and the wildlife they sustain.
We look for muskoxen, caribou and Spectacled Eiders on arctic tundra. Wolves and Dall sheep in the Brooks Range mountains. King Salmon ply silt-laden waters of the Yukon River. Grizzly bears feed in Denali s alpine meadows. The Kenai Fjords is prime marine habitat for whales and puffins.
Alaska's major ecosystems - the Arctic to Denali to Kenai Fjords
In 1981, "A Naturalist in Alaska," was the first, and today the only, nature tour to cross the major ecosystems from Arctic tundra to the Brooks Range mountains, past the Arctic Circle and Yukon River Basin forests, onto Denali Park and Kenai Fjords ocean.
The route was chosen to include 20 federal and state parks, wildlife refuges, forests, conservation units and wild rivers. A series of world-class interpretive and educational centers and museums create a learning environment that help visitors contribute to the protection of significant scenic, wildlife, wilderness, historic, archeological, geological, scientific, recreational and cultural values.
NatureAlaska strengths draw from decades of diverse, professional experience of Alaska's senior wildlife scientists. This comprehensive tour program includes developing new wildlife finding skills and a better understanding of wildlife biology, ecology, habitat and conservation.
Guides who work where they live - the value of arctic experience
"People will sleep in the mud for a good guide." The manager for a national wildlife organization knew nature travel, and that the members want to experience first- hand the real Alaska and learn about life in the Far North from real Alaskans - who live where they work. Not someone from the south on a short summer job.
Wilderness travel, science and conservation
"A Naturalist in Alaska," is a useful, real-world forum for curious, adventurous travelers to engage in wilderness travel for authentic experiences; science, useful and easily understood; and conservation to help us appreciate why.
I'll be by your side as we scan the tundra and mountain slopes looking for your first grizzly bear. I'll put my 39 years finding bears to work for you. Along the arctic Dalton Highway and Denali Park is where they live. Not in your backyard. Come North with me in 2006 and see for yourself.
Dan L. Wetzel, NatureAlaska Tours, LLC
Call (907) 488-3746 or email .
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