USFWS National Digital Library

- Yellow warbler attends to its nest
- Forests; Birds;
- Habitat; Aspen; YFNWR; Species; Passerines
- Images
- Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge wetlands
- Wildlife refuges; Scenics; Wildlife refuges;
- Aerial view of Refuge.
- Images
- Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge wetlands
- Wildlife refuges; Scenics; Wetlands;
- Aerial view of Refuge.
- Images
- Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge
- Videography;u.s. fish and wildlife service;wildlife refuges;
- The Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge is a vast, extreme, wild, and vital landscape. Within its boundaries are 11 million acres of roadless lands that straddle the Arctic Circle.
- Videos
- Small hidden lake on the Flats
- Habitat; Wetlands; Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR; Scenics; Landscapes
- A typical small lake succumbs to a meadow in Yukon Flats NWR.
- Images
- Sunset across Scoter Camp Lake
- Habitat; Lake; Forests; Boreal Forests; Scenics; Landscapes; Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR
- Sunset casts a golden light on the white spruce forest across a lake on the Yukon Flats NWR.
- Images
- Yellow warbler nest with eggs
- Forests; Birds;
- A Yellow warbler nest with eggs sits in an aspen tree on the Yukon Flats NWR.; Habitat; Aspen; YFNWR; Species; Passerines
- Images
- Pair of white-winged scoters
- Habitat; Lakes; Species; Birds; Waterfowl; Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR
- A pair of White-winged scoters swim in a lake on the Yukon Flats NWR.
- Images
- Street of Fort Yukon village
- Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR; Indigenous populations; Native Americans; Interior Indians; Athabascans
- Fort Yukon village lies within the boundaries of the Yukon Flats NWR.
- Images
- Educating waterfowl hunters
- Work of the Service; Education; Education outreach; Recreation; Hunting; Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR;
- Refuge Operations Specialist Barry Whitehill instructs a young Stevens Village resident during a Steel Shot Clinic.
- Images
- Setting a waterfowl capture net
- Work of the Service; Wildlife management; Animal Tagging; Bird banding; Habitat; Lakes; Wetlands; Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR; Species; Birds; Waterfowl
- Researchers set up a waterfowl rocket net to capture and band ducks at Canvasback Lake, YFNWR.
- Images
- Collecting data on a swan nest
- Work of the Service; Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR; Wildlife management; Habitat; Lakes; Species; Birds; Waterfowl
- Biological Technician Kate Soetaert enters nest data of a swan nest at Scoter Camp Lakes.
- Images
- Technicians count waterfowl from the shore
- Work of the Service; Wildlife management; Habitat; Lakes; Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR; Species; Birds
- Biological Technicians Scott Freeman and Corey VanStratt count waterfowl using a scope on Scoter Camp Lakes in Yukon Flats NWR.
- Images
- The Grand beaver lodge on Scoter Camp Lakes
- Work of the Service; Wildlife management; Animal Tagging; Bird banding; Habitat; Lakes; Scenics; Landscapes; Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR; Species; Birds; Waterfowl
- Biological Technicians stand on a large beaver lodge in Scoter Camp Lakes to find strategic locations to set up nets for trapping scoters for tagging.
- Images
- Technician weighs a male scoter
- Work of the Service; Employees (USFWS); Wildlife management; Tagging; Bird banding; Birds; Waterfowl; Aquatic environments;
- Biological Technician Laura Kennedy weighs a white-winged scoter drake during a scoter breeding ecology study at Scoter Camp Lake in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
- Images
- Candling scoter egg
- Work of the Service; Wildlife management; Birds; Waterfowl; Employees (USFWS); Personnel; Biologists (USFWS); Research
- Biological Technician Scott Freeman candles a scoter egg to see at what stage of incubation the nest is during a white-winged scoter breeding ecology study on the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
- Images
- Searching for waterfowl nests
- Work of the Service; Wildlife management; Habitat; Forestss; Wetlands; Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR
- A nest searching team prepares to begin their hike through the forests and marshes looking for waterfowl nests on the Yukon Flats NWR.
- Images
- Waterbomber CL-215 scoops water
- Work of the Service; Fire Management; Habitat; Forestss; Lakes; Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR
- Scooping a belly-full of water from Scoter Camp Lake, a CL-215 waterbomber helps to suppress the Lower Mouth Fire on the Yukon Flats NWR.
- Images
- Scoter Team collects data on scoters
- Work of the Service; Wildlife management; Animal Tagging; Bird banding; Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR; Species; Birds; Waterfowl
- Biological Technicians work quickly to measure, weigh, and band a White-winged scoter hen and her ducklings in a scoter breeding ecology study on Yukon Flats NWR.
- Images
- Emergent vegetation - bulrush
- Habitat; Lakes; Ponds; Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR; Scenics; Landscapes; Species; Vegetation; Plants
- Bulrush commonly grows in the lakes found in Yukon Flats NWR.
- Images