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Photo: Snug outpost in Old Harbor, Alaska
Photo: Snug outpost in Old Harbor, Alaska
Photo: Winter sun on Ugak Bay
Photo: Kodiak brown bear being tagged
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Snug outpost, Old Harbor—population 298—nestles beneath sheltering peaks. On Kodiak [Island] nearly everyone fishes, including the island's huge brown bears, which roam a renowned wildlife refuge.

—From "Kodiak: Alaska's Island Refuge," November 1993, National Geographic magazine
Photograph by George F. Mobley

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