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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A mountain chain of northern Alaska within the Arctic Circle. The northernmost section of the Rocky Mountains, it rises to about 2,749 m (9,020 ft) in the eastern part of the range.
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We passed tracks of moose, lynx, caribou, and the star-patterns of the snowshoe hare; we slid past stands of cottonwood, willow and spruce, and sailed towards the famous granite spires known as Boreal Mountain and Frigid Crags, the guardians of the 600-mile-long Brooks Range, the Gates of the Arctic.
Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold? Richard Bangs 2011
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The final day was a 20-mile gambol through a southern spur of the Brooks Range, the Blue Cloud Mountains.
Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold? Richard Bangs 2011
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We passed tracks of moose, lynx, caribou, and the star-patterns of the snowshoe hare; we slid past stands of cottonwood, willow and spruce, and sailed towards the famous granite spires known as Boreal Mountain and Frigid Crags, the guardians of the 600-mile-long Brooks Range, the Gates of the Arctic.
Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold? Richard Bangs 2011
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The ashes of my good friend Mollie Beattie rode the winds before settling slowly beneath the surface of the crystal blue mountain lake in the heart of the Brooks Range in northern Alaska.
Jamie Rappaport Clark: The Arctic Refuge: A Place Worth Fighting For Jamie Rappaport Clark 2011
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The final day was a 20-mile gambol through a southern spur of the Brooks Range, the Blue Cloud Mountains.
Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold? Richard Bangs 2011
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And most trips begin as mine had on a Tuesday last month, with a dragonfly flight through the corridors of the Brooks Range in a six-seat crate of a bush plane.
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No Alaskan wilderness panorama is more breathtaking than the Arctic National Wildlife's coastal plain in the height of summer, with teeming herds of migrating caribou dotting the tundra and the majestic Brooks Range towering in the distance.
Palin: Illusion and Reality Edward Flattau 2010
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We were at the headwaters of the Nigu River, in a valley on the north-facing slopes of the Brooks Range that an outfitter later told us was the most remote part of all Alaska.
The Oil Specter That Haunted Alaska Is Now Haunting The Gulf: A Look Back At Exxon Valdez 2010
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The Brooks Range effectively forms Alaska's tree line -- the latitude beyond which trees do not grow -- and its rivers drain northward down onto a vast tundra plain dominated by a cotton grass that is the favorite food of the millions of caribou that migrate to the region during the summer months.
The Oil Specter That Haunted Alaska Is Now Haunting The Gulf: A Look Back At Exxon Valdez 2010
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We were at the headwaters of the Nigu River, in a valley on the north-facing slopes of the Brooks Range that an outfitter later told us was the most remote part of all Alaska.
The Oil Specter That Haunted Alaska Is Now Haunting The Gulf: A Look Back At Exxon Valdez 2010
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