Rocky cliffs line the southwestern coast of Togiak Refuge providing nesting areas for up to 1.5 million seabirds and protecting isolated beaches ideal for marine mammal haulouts.
This image was taken during the Seabird Marine Mammal Oceanographic Coordinated Investigation (SMMOCI) project. Scenics; Landscapes; Wildlife refuges; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Aleutians; Tiglax
Herman Bohlman climbing Three Arch Rocks cliffs in order to photograph a pigeon guillemot nest in 1903. Finley and Bohlmans photgraphs of the area in 1903 would later help Three Arch Rocks become the west coasts first bird refuge in 1907.
Hand painted glass slide of Finley and Bohlman climbing the cliffs at Three Arch Rocks to photograph Common Murres. This shot is an excellent exapmle of the risk and adventure needed in early photograph.
AMNWR; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Gulf of Alaska Unit; Biology; Islands; Research; Coastal environments; Scenics; Birds; Black-legged Kittiwakes
Counting and measuring Black-legged Kittiwake chicks on the cliffs of E. Amatuli Island in the Barrens off the tip of the Kenai Peninsula is part of the many tasks completed every summer by biologists and technicians from Alaska Maritime National...