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Lemming, Icy Cape, Alaska

By Alaska Science Center 1980 (approx.)
Biologist holding lemming in hand at study site at Icy Cape, AK. Biologist hand is covered with brown glove.
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Biologist holding lemming. Photo taken at Icy Cape study site. Icy Cape is part of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) on the Arctic Coastal Plain. This was one of many study site locations of waterbird-oriented ecosystem studies in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from 1974-1992.

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Public Domain.

U.S. Geological Survey