Brooks Range Acts as Wild April on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022

Summary: Brooks Range acts as wild April on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022, where the National Audubon Society admires Arctic and near-Arctic American wildlife.

Wild Alaskan skies accommodate blue and red Northern Lights. Blue and red colors rarely accompany the predominantly green Aurora borealis (from Latin aurora boreālis, “dawn northern”) of Arctic Earth; ca. 2007 image of red and green aurora, Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, east central Alaska: Brocken Inaglory, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Brooks Range acts as wild April on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022, where the National Audubon Society admires Arctic and near-Arctic American wildlife of Alaska, continental Canada and the Canadian Arctic archipelago.

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 boasts of Brooks Range as best base for the blended Alaskan ambient and atmospheric beauty of northern lights and northern mountains. The Northern Lights, called Aurora Borealis (from Latin aurora boreālis, “dawn northern”), changingly, colorfully cluster 49.71 to 310.69 miles (80 to 500 kilometers) above north Earth. Brooks Range domiciles as its highest and its lowest peaks Mount Isto and Cockedhat Mountain, with 8,975.1-foot (2,735.6-meter) and 7,410-foot (2,260-meter) altitudes above sea level, respectively.

Hubley, Chamberlin, Michelson and The Gates of Kiev, with 8,914-foot (2,717-meter), 8,898.6-foot (2,712.3-meter), 8,855-foot (2,699-meter) and 7,775-foot (2,370-meter) heights, respectively, enthrall as 2nd- through 5th-highest mounts.

Brooks Range, like the North Slope Borough lake that acknowledges bush pilot Bart Galbraith (died 1950), accounts for minimal numbers in the 49th Unitedstatesian state's total population. Brooks Range and Lake Galbraith advantage their irregular, scattered audiences with wild animals, landscapes, plants and skies; USDOI (U.S. Department of the Interior) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) image of Brooks Range (Gwichʼin language Dinju Zhuh Kʼyuu: Gwazhal), viewed near Galbraith Lake, North Slope Borough, north central Alaska, Arctic Circle, northern North America: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Black Mountain, Mount Doonerak, Mount Igikpak and Frigid Crags, with 5,020-foot (1,530-meter), 7,457-foot (2,273-meter), 8,276-foot (2,523-meter) and 5,501-foot (1,677-meter) heights, respectively, figure as 6th- through 9th-highest.

Boreal Mountain and Limestack Mountain, with respective 6,654-foot (2,028-meter) and 6,250-foot (1,900-meter) altitudes above sea level, get grouped as respective 10th- and 11th-highest Brooks Range peaks. Mount Isto, honoring U.S. Geological Survey civil engineer Reynold Edward Isto (Nov. 12, 1913-Aug. 23, 1965), has the oldest heights, at perhaps 126 million years old. The venerable peak, 5 miles (8 kilometers) south of the second-tallest Brooks Range peak, Mount Hubley, is within northeastern Alaska’s 19,286,722-acre (78,050.59-square-kilometer) Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Brooks Range, as wild April accessing Northern Lights (Aurora borealis), joins another wild juncture, Mount Katmai stratovolcano as wild November, on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022.

The 8,975.1-foot- (2,735.6-meter-) tall Mount Isto, for U.S. Geological Survey civil engineer Reynold Edward Isto (Nov. 12, 1913-Aug. 23, 1965), biogeographically and geologically aestheticizes its affixing within Brooks Range. It likewise affirms the wild aesthetics of its affixing within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; Tuesday, April 5, 2005, USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) image of southward view of Brooks Range, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Alaska Native Anaktuvuk and Arctic Villages and the Bettles, Chondalar, Coldfoot and Wiseman small communities kept within the 700-some-mile (1,100-some-meter-) long mountain range know Northern Lights.

Northeast Alaska’s and Yukon Territory’s north- to south-lying, 150-mile (240-kilometer-) wide mountain range logs range coordinates 68 degrees 12 minutes North 152 degrees 15 minutes West. Brooks Range, for Alfred Hulse Brooks (July 18, 1871-Nov. 22, 1924), United States Geological Survey chief geologist for Alaska (1903-1924) maintains mostly inhabitability apart Atigun Pass. The 4,739-foot- (1,444-meter-) high Atigun Pass niches the Dalton Highway and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System that navigate, to oil fields, the always-navigable, highest Alaskan mountain pass.

Brooks Range, as wild April on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022, offers the open outdoors for observing Northern Lights apart occupied Atigun Pass, communities and villages.

Its 7,410-foot (2,260-meter) height above sea level allows Cockedhat Mountain last place among the 12 highest peaks in Brooks Range. The Brooks Range peak alludes in its namesake appearance to a brimless, triangular hat with back, front and top apexes. Its sheer-angled walls to cloud-amassed peaks amaze its audiences in the 7,167,192-acre (11,198.74-square-mile, 29,004.57-square-kilometer) Gates of the Arctic Wilderness protected area of the 8,472,506-acre (13,238-square-mile, 34,287-square-kilometer) Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. East, north and south bowls anchor cirque glaciers even as only the southern bowl never appears year-round icy and snowy; August 1973 image of Cockedhat Mountain, 30 miles east of Anaktuvuk Pass, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, North Slope Borough, north central Alaska, Arctic Circle, northern North America: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The North Slope Borough possesses Brooks Range’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the largest North American oil field, at the 213,543-acre (86,418-hectare) Prudhoe Bay oil fields.

Yukon Territory quarters eastern Brooks Range as the British Mountains, where Porcupine caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) queue in Ivvavik National Park (from Inuvialuktun Inuit ivvavik, “birthplace”). Vuntut National Park (from Gwich’in Athabaskan vuntut, “among the lakes”) southeast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Ivvavik National Park, realizes resplendent Northern Lights reception. Brooks Range shelters such Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 iconic wildlife as mallards, muskoxen, buff-breasted sandpipers, polar bears, king eiders, brown bears, caribou and snowy owls.

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 teams such wild places as Brooks Range, Denali Mountain and Mount Katmai respectively with wild April, wild July and wild November.

All Alaska appreciates the winter sky's Northern Lights from late August to late April. The 12-month availability of Aurora Borealis (from Latin aurora boreālis, “dawn northern”) arranges itself far less apparently and audaciously from May through July; Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2005, view of aurora borealis, northern lights, over Eielson Air Force Base (AFB) Bear Lake, Fairbanks North Star Borough, east central Alaska, photographed by Senior Airman Joshua Strang: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:

Wild Alaskan skies accommodate blue and red Northern Lights. Blue and red colors rarely accompany the predominantly green Aurora borealis (from Latin aurora boreālis, “dawn northern”) of Arctic Earth; ca. 2007 image of red and green aurora, Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, east central Alaska: Brocken Inaglory, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_and_green_aurora.jpg

Brooks Range, like the North Slope Borough lake that acknowledges bush pilot Bart Galbraith (died 1950), accounts for minimal numbers in the 49th Unitedstatesian state's total population. Brooks Range and Lake Galbraith advantage their irregular, scattered audiences with wild animals, landscapes, plants and skies; USDOI (U.S. Department of the Interior) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) image of Brooks Range (Gwichʼin language Dinju Zhuh Kʼyuu: Gwazhal), viewed near Galbraith Lake, North Slope Borough, north central Alaska, Arctic Circle, northern North America: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooks_Range-400px.jpg

The 8,975.1-foot- (2,735.6-meter-) tall Mount Isto, for U.S. Geological Survey civil engineer Reynold Edward Isto (Nov. 12, 1913-Aug. 23, 1965), biogeographically and geologically aestheticizes its affixing within Brooks Range. It likewise affirms the wild aesthetics of its affixing within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; Tuesday, April 5, 2005, USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) image of southward view of Brooks Range, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooks_Range_Mountains_ANWR.jpg

Its 7,410-foot (2,260-meter) height above sea level allows Cockedhat Mountain last place among the 12 highest peaks in Brooks Range. The Brooks Range peak alludes in its namesake appearance to a brimless, triangular hat with back, front and top apexes. Its sheer-angled walls to cloud-amassed peaks amaze its audiences in the 7,167,192-acre (11,198.74-square-mile, 29,004.57-square-kilometer) Gates of the Arctic Wilderness protected area of the 8,472,506-acre (13,238-square-mile, 34,287-square-kilometer) Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. East, north and south bowls anchor cirque glaciers even as only the southern bowl never appears year-round icy and snowy; August 1973 image of Cockedhat Mountain, 30 miles east of Anaktuvuk Pass, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, North Slope Borough, north central Alaska, Arctic Circle, northern North America: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cockedhat_Mountain_(32735779293).jpg: The U.S. National Archives, No known copyright restrictions, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/32735779293/; Unrestricted use, via National Archives Catalog @ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/42199690

All Alaska appreciates the winter sky's Northern Lights from late August to late April. The 12-month availability of Aurora Borealis (from Latin aurora boreālis, “dawn northern”) arranges itself far less apparently and audaciously from May through July; Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2005, view of aurora borealis, northern lights, over Eielson Air Force Base (AFB) Bear Lake, Fairbanks North Star Borough, east central Alaska, photographed by Senior Airman Joshua Strang: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polarlicht.jpg

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