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Launch your journey from the Yukon River
bridge on the Dalton Highway. Heading upstream, visitors enter the Yukon
Flats National Wildlife Refuge, a remarkable ecosystem in the heart of
Alaska's boreal forest. This is one of America's largest breeding and nesting
grounds for millions of migrating birds. The region's biodiversity also
sustains moose, caribou, and thier predators; black bears, grizzly bears,
and wolves. The boreal forest is also habitat to snowshoe hare, lynx, wolverine,
fox, martin, and beaver. The Rampart Canyon area of the Yukon River is
famed for its salmon fishing locations and beauty.
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The Yukon River is the source of life for
many Athabascans and Inuit in Alaska. For Koyukon Athabascans the river
is a powerful presence, especially in the summer. That's when people are
out on the river salmon fishing with nets and fishwheels. The salmon
caught is preserved for year round use at a "fishcamp" where these activities
are carried out. An important transportation corridor, this river is known
for its high productivity of salmon.
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