Protecting Migration Routes Through Alaska's Kobuk Valley National Park
Twice every year nearly half a million Western Arctic Caribou—the second-largest caribou herd in North America—migrate through Kobuk Valley National Park. When a landowner needed to sell his property along the Kobuk River—land that provides many strategic caribou crossing sites—he wanted a buyer who would conserve the land. The National Park Service wanted to buy the property but didn’t have the funding to buy it at the time of sale. That's where we came in. Read the story >>










