Marcia and Mark spent nineteen days canoeing the Canning River on the western edge of the Arctic Refuge. Photo © Mark Wilson
	Visit Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with two seasoned naturalists. In this land of 24-hour summer sun, you'll meet some of the mammals, birds, insects and plants that thrive in our country's most remote wilderness. Ponder the controversial issues and congressional debate over whether to open the 1002 Area in the refuge to oil drilling. The slide show and live bird program treats you to intimate views of snowy owls at the nest, caribou crossing a cold river and barren ground grizzly. Gyrfalcon, wolverine and musk ox show themselves. Peregrine falcons, yellow-billed loons, buff-breasted sandpipers join the nesting fray. Meet lemmings, arctic hares and foxes.						Here above the arctic circle, learn how light and weather, mosquitoes and lemmings, play into a symphony of life in this remote arctic ecosystem. Marcia and Mark spent nineteen days canoeing the Canning River on the western edge of the Arctic Refuge. Floating north from a gravel airstrip in the Brooks Range, the Wilsons paddled a 17-foot folding canoe to explore 70 miles of arctic wilderness. With stunning photos and passionate commentary drawn from this trip and six other visits to the arctic, the Wilsons open a window on Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife refuge and its summer energy.