abstract:The Brooks Range (Gwich'in Athabaskan Gwazhał) is a mountain range in far northern North America. It stretches from west to east across northern Alaska and into Canada's Yukon Territory, a total distance of about 1100 km (700 mi).
In July of 1956, wilderness activists Olaus and Mardy Murie made an expedition to the upper Sheenjek River of Alaska's BrooksRange to inventory the wonders of an all-but-untouched wilderness.