Caribou and Fuel Tanks
« Back to Public Land - The BLM-The Big Open, August 2001 National Geographic Magazine
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Caribou pass by a fuel tank at a now unmanned Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line radar station. Drums date back to a campsite for oil and gas exploration, closed in 1983. Lonely is situated 20 feet above sea level on a low lying land mass that extends from the Alaskan mainland between Smith Bay and Harrison Bay. Two 65,000 gallon diesel oil tanks sit behind a runway.
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