The amount of insulation in this photo is incredible. The frozen tundra is unforgiving. (Photo submitted by the author)
May 04, 2026
By David Draper
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A single set of oblong tracks punched through the crusty snow. Sometime between sunset and sunrise, a barren-ground caribou had made a solitary march across the wide, frozen surface of MacKay Lake. A lone caribou is a rarity in a species that finds its safety in numbers among the typically large herds of the northern tundra. As if to emphasize the point, within a few hundred yards from where we first picked up the track, a pair of new prints paralleled the caribou’s...
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