sierraclub.org - sierra magazine - july/august 2012 - arctic - arctic ice: the other recession
Florian Schulz photographs the wildlife at the top of the world
Photography by Florian Schulz, from To the Arctic | Text by M.P. Klier
Schulz returned to the Arctic for years, hoping to find the elusive caribou herds, and finally met up with them in dramatic fashion as their pounding hooves roused him from his tent in Alaska's Utukok Uplands. In the spring, this Western Arctic herd, which numbers about 350,000, migrates hundreds of miles from the Seward Peninsula to its calving grounds in the National Petroleum Reserve. The calves pretty much hit the ground running—they're able to stand hours after being born and are trotting and crossing streams within a few days.