These photos are mostly from Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, a sprawling, 4.5 million-acre wilderness in the Alaska-Aleutian Range on the west side of Cook Inlet. It encompasses a rugged mountain range, where hundreds of glaciers feed thousand-foot waterfalls that feed dozens of rivers and lakes, which together host one of the largest salmon spawning grounds in the world, fueling the rich population of brown and black bear, wolves, foxes, bald eagles, all kinds of seabirds, moose, caribou, sheep, and more. Quite a place.

I lived there from jun-dec 2009 during an internship with the NPS. These are from the first half of the trip; photos from fall/winter can be found here.