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Alaska, 1987 Photograph by George F. Mobley The Porcupine caribou herd
grazes near Beaufort Lagoon in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. Every spring, this 165,000-member herd, named for the Porcupine
River which runs through its winter grounds, migrates 400 miles (644
kilometers) over the Brooks Range to calving grounds on the coastal
plain.

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