USFWS
Marine Mammals Management
Alaska Region

 

Polar Bear Photos

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Cottle Island, a barrier island, looking east, August 2009  Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Cottle Island, a barrier island,
looking east, August 2009.
Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Polar bear excavation site, Cottle Island, August 2009.  Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Polar bear excavation site,
Cottle Island, August 2009.
Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Polar bear family group resting on a barrier island during the fall open water period, 2007.  Photo Credit: Susanne Miller/USFWS
Polar bear family group resting on a barrier
island during the fall open water period, 2007
Photo Credit: Susanne Miller/USFWS
Barrier island along Arctic NWR.  Photo Credit: A.S. Thayer/USFWS
Barrier island along Arctic NWR
Photo Credit: A.S. Thayer/USFWS
Polar bear travel corridor along Beaufort Sea coastal bluffs, 2007.  Photo Credit: Susanne Miller/USFWS
Polar bear travel corridor along
Beaufort Sea coastal bluffs, 2007
Photo Credit: Susanne Miller/USFWS
Hunting the ice edge for polar bears near Cape Lisburne. Spring 2008 Chukchi Sea capture effort. Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Hunting the ice edge for polar bears
near Cape Lisburne.  Spring 2008
Chukchi Sea capture effort.
Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Male polar bear tracks, Chukchi Sea, March 2008. Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Male polar bear tracks,
Chukchi Sea, March 2008.
Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Male polar bear tracks, Cape Lisburne in the distance, Chukchi Sea, 2008. Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Male polar bear tracks, Cape Lisburne
in the distance, Chukchi Sea, 2008.
Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS

Spring ice habitat off shore from the Arctic NWR, 2008.  Photo Credit: Susanne Miller/USFWS
Spring ice habitat off shore from the
Arctic NWR, 2008
Photo Credit: Susanne Miller/USFWS

Seals resting near a frozen lead, Beaufort Sea, 2008. Photo Credit: Susanne Miller/USFWS
Seals resting near a frozen lead,
Beaufort Sea, 2008
Photo Credit: Susanne Miller/USFWS

Seals resting near a frozen lead, Beaufort Sea, 2008. Photo Credit: Susanne Miller/USFWS
Seals resting near a frozen lead,
Beaufort Sea, 2008
Photo Credit: Susanne Miller/USFWS

Tracking bears over off shore ice habitat in the Chukchi Sea, spring 2008. Photo Credit: Susanne Miller/USFWS
Tracking bears over off shore ice habitat
in the Chukchi Sea, spring 2008
Photo Credit: Susanne Miller/USFWS

Investigating an abandoned maternal polar bear den, Pingok Island, March 2005. Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Investigating an abandoned maternal
polar bear den, Pingok Island, March 2005.
Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS

Bear den entrance, North Slope, Alaska. Photo Credit: USFWS
Bear den entrance, North Slope, Alaska
Photo Credit: USFWS
Abandoned bear den, Colville River. Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Abandoned bear den, Colville River
Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Excavation site, sea ice, North Slope, Alaska. Photo Credit: USFWS
Excavation site, sea ice,
North Slope, Alaska.
Photo Credit: USFWS

Interior of a polar bear den, Pingok Island, March 2005. Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Interior of a polar bear den,
Pingok Island, March 2005.
Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS

Investigating an abandoned polar bear excavation site, Chukchi Sea, March 2008.  Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS
Investigating an abandoned polar bear
excavation site, Chukchi Sea, March 2008.
Photo Credit: Craig Perham/USFWS

          

Last updated: October 20, 2009