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Fairbanks, AK -- Tuesday, March 15, 2022: Soldiers of the U.S. Army participate in a series exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: U.S. Military personnel participate in a series of exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: U.S. Military personnel in a tactical operations center participate in a series of exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: Captain Weston Iannone, Commander of Bravo Company, within the 425 Infantry Brigade stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, who is in charge of overseeing a company during a series of exercises the U.S. Army performs in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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FORT WAINWRIGHT, FAIRBANKS, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: U.S. Military personnel gather into convoys at a staging area as part of a series of exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: A soldier rides in a SUSV while participating with the U.S. Military in a series of exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for the New York Times
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FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: A loaf of bread is placed near the stove for the night inside a tent for part of the Blackfoot Company in a U.S. Army training exercise eat late at night after a long day./ASH ADAMS for the New York Times
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FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: Specialist Joseph Salas of the Blackfoot Company in the U.S. Army mans a Mark 19 Automatic Grenade Launcher during a series of exercises the U.S. Army performed in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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Fairbanks, AK -- Tuesday, March 15, 2022: Soldiers of the U.S. Army participate in a series exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: A U.S. Military vehicle departs one of the camp sites utilized during a series of exercises in the Arctic. Getting supplies to and from locations while coping in sub-zero temperatures is a major focus for the company./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: Matt Shaefer, Facility Manager of Denali National Park and Preserve, stands on the threatened road site at Pretty Rock. Shaefer says that after just two days of no maintenance, the road has shifted two feet./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
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DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: The Robotic Total Station at Pretty Rock collects daa from the many prisms gathering data of the shifting geography of the area./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
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DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: David Schirokauer, Science and Resources Team Leader./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
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DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: The Robotic Total Station poised just beyond the weak part of the road at Pretty Rock collects daa from the many prisms gathering data of the shifting geography of the area./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
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DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: The threatened road site at Pretty Rock in Denali National Park and Preserve. Matt Shaefer, Facility Manager of Denali National Park and Preserve, says that after just two days of no maintenance, the road has shifted two feet./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
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DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: Denali National Park and Preserve, as viewed from Pretty Rock./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
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DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: Passengers ride one of the many buses in Denali National Park and Preserve./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
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DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: Brooke Merrell, Deputy Superintendent of Denali National Park and Preserve./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
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DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: One of the many buses in Denali National Park and Preserve drives along the park road. The park road has approximately 140 threatened sites./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
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FAIRBANKS, AK -- February 20, 2022: Roxy Buresch, 12, and her mother Lonnie Buresch./ASH ADAMS for Vogue
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FAIRBANKS, AK -- Sunday, February 20, 2022: Maureen Mayo, 61. Mayo decided to be traditionally tattooed when she was 58. "I said that I would do it by the time I was 60," she says. Mayo says that for her, the tattoos represent healing, spirituality, and a connection to her culture. "They represent being who I am." She said that her mother had told her stories about women doing the practice and that had stuck with her throughout her life./ASH ADAMS for Vogue
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FAIRBANKS, AK -- Sunday, February 20, 2022: Jaida Attla holds her son, Saint Maikoa Isaac Attla, 4 months old, after Jody Potts-Joseph traditionally tattoos her hand.//ASH ADAMS for Vogue
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FAIRBANKS, AK -- Sunday, February 20, 2022: Jody Potts-Joseph tattoos her niece, Jae Pitka. /ASH ADAMS for Vogue
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Tuesday, April 12, 2022: Senator Lisa Murkowski stands for a portrait in the Anchorage Museum after speaking with attendees of the Alaska Climate Youth Summit./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Tuesday, April 12, 2022: Senator Lisa Murkowski stands for a portrait in the Anchorage Museum after speaking with attendees of the Alaska Climate Youth Summit./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Monday, April 11, 2022: U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka speaks at a campaign event at Great Alakka Pizza Co./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Monday, April 11, 2022: A crowd listens as U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka speaks at a campaign event at Great Alakka Pizza Co./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Maleika Jones and Gregory Shuaib, in their home./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Maleika Jones watches as Saaima Sadiq adds a tomato based to the biryani./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: A prayer hangs at the Islamic Community Center of Anchorage. /ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Maleika Jones holds the marinated lamb she and Sadiq will use to make biryani./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Saaima Sadiq shows Maleika how much coloring to add to the biryani before allowing it to finish cooking./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Maleika Jones places finished dishes on her table./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Chicken chickpea curry./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
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STEVENS VILLAGE, AK -- Tuesday, August 3, 2021: Stevens Village Chief David Kriska with his wife, Cheryl Kriska, and children (from left) Brady Anarose Kriska, 4, Edison Lillian Kriska, 2, and Walter Andrew Maillelle, 10, outside of their home./Ash Adams
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STEVENS VILLAGE, AK -- Tuesday, August 3, 2021: Chief PJ Simon, Chief and Chairman for Tanana Chiefs Conference in Stevens Village on the bank of the Yukon River. The Tanana Chiefs Conference held its subregional meeting in Stevens Village this summer, bringing together leaders from several communities for two days of meetings and celebration./Ash Adams
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STEVENS VILLAGE, AK -- Tuesday, August 3, 2021: The Yukon River./Ash Adams
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YUKON RIVER, AK -- Wednesday August 4, 2021: Darrell Kriska checks on fish hanging at his fish camp on the Yukon River, about a one-hour boatride from his home in Stevens Village. Kriska says that in years past, all of the racks and beams would be covered with salmon. Kriska says he fished for his family and his extended family this year, but that it takes much longer to get far less fish than the family is used to, due in part by the low salmon run this year and regulations that have changed the size of the nets allowed for subsistsence fishing. Kriska, who makes all of his nets himself, made a 4-inch net this year to fish with per regulations./Ash Adams
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YUKON RIVER, AK -- Wednesday August 4, 2021: Darrell Kriska boards his boat at his fish camp on the Yukon River, about a one-hour boatride from his home in Stevens Village, before heading home after checking on the salmon that's hanging on the racks and feeding his dog, Maggie, who watches te camp while he is gone. Kriska says he fished for his family and his extended family this year, but that it takes much longer to get far less fish than the family is used to, due in part by the low salmon run this year and regulations that have changed the size of the nets allowed for subsistsence fishing. Kriska, who makes all of his nets himself, made a 4-inch net this year to fish with per regulations. Kriska works in construction, building homes, including the structures on his properties./Ash Adams
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ANCHORAGE, AK --Wednesday, Octobr 20, 2021: Cynthia Ivan (right) with her girlfriend, Lulu Demantle, who is also, like Ivan, originally from Akiak./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
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ANCHORAGE, AK --Wednesday, Octobr 20, 2021: Bethel, Alaska, the hub village in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region where Ivan lived./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
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PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: The view from the living room of Thecla and Norman Xavier's home in Pilot Station. The family could see the clinic where their son was dying of Covid-19 and their daughter was struggling with complications as well, but they couldn't be there until the end. Due to the volatile fall weather, the medivac wasn't able to land in Pilot Station until the day after Joseph Xavier died from Covid-19 in the clinic, at whiich time it picked up Joseph's sister, Natasia Xavier. Nastasia was then in a coma for twenty-one days in Seattle./ ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
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PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Thecla Xavier looks out the window in her home while Norman Xavier, diagnosed wiith dementia, rests on the couch. After the death of their son Joseph Xavier in 2020, the family says that Norman stopped speaking. He was later diagnosed with dementia./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
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PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Thecla Xavier stands in the bedroom of her late son Joseph Xavier. "You can feel something in here," she says../ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
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PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Thecla Xavier stands in the bedroom of her late son Joseph Xavier. "You can feel something in here," she says../ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
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PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Nastasia Xavier, the sister of the late Joesph Xavier, displays a photograph on her phone from last winter, when she was in a coma from Covid-19. Xavier was in a coma for 21 days and is still dealing with complications from the disease. She just returned from heart surgery last month, she says./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
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PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Nastasia Xavier was in a coma for 21 days in the winter of 2020, a complication of Covid-19. While she was in a coma, she needed to be intubated through incisions in her neck./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
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PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Joseph Xavier's grave in the cemetery in Pilot Station./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
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PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: A cross hangs from Thecla Xavier's four-wheeler in Pilot Station. She says she put it there to keep away the bears./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
Fairbanks, AK -- Tuesday, March 15, 2022: Soldiers of the U.S. Army participate in a series exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: U.S. Military personnel participate in a series of exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: U.S. Military personnel in a tactical operations center participate in a series of exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: Captain Weston Iannone, Commander of Bravo Company, within the 425 Infantry Brigade stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, who is in charge of overseeing a company during a series of exercises the U.S. Army performs in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
FORT WAINWRIGHT, FAIRBANKS, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: U.S. Military personnel gather into convoys at a staging area as part of a series of exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: A soldier rides in a SUSV while participating with the U.S. Military in a series of exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for the New York Times
FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: A loaf of bread is placed near the stove for the night inside a tent for part of the Blackfoot Company in a U.S. Army training exercise eat late at night after a long day./ASH ADAMS for the New York Times
FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: Specialist Joseph Salas of the Blackfoot Company in the U.S. Army mans a Mark 19 Automatic Grenade Launcher during a series of exercises the U.S. Army performed in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
Fairbanks, AK -- Tuesday, March 15, 2022: Soldiers of the U.S. Army participate in a series exercises in the Arctic./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
FORT GREELY, AK -- Monday, March 14, 2022: A U.S. Military vehicle departs one of the camp sites utilized during a series of exercises in the Arctic. Getting supplies to and from locations while coping in sub-zero temperatures is a major focus for the company./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: Matt Shaefer, Facility Manager of Denali National Park and Preserve, stands on the threatened road site at Pretty Rock. Shaefer says that after just two days of no maintenance, the road has shifted two feet./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: The Robotic Total Station at Pretty Rock collects daa from the many prisms gathering data of the shifting geography of the area./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: David Schirokauer, Science and Resources Team Leader./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: The Robotic Total Station poised just beyond the weak part of the road at Pretty Rock collects daa from the many prisms gathering data of the shifting geography of the area./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: The threatened road site at Pretty Rock in Denali National Park and Preserve. Matt Shaefer, Facility Manager of Denali National Park and Preserve, says that after just two days of no maintenance, the road has shifted two feet./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: Denali National Park and Preserve, as viewed from Pretty Rock./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: Passengers ride one of the many buses in Denali National Park and Preserve./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: Brooke Merrell, Deputy Superintendent of Denali National Park and Preserve./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA -- Saturday, September 4, 2021: One of the many buses in Denali National Park and Preserve drives along the park road. The park road has approximately 140 threatened sites./ASH ADAMS for The Washington Post
FAIRBANKS, AK -- February 20, 2022: Roxy Buresch, 12, and her mother Lonnie Buresch./ASH ADAMS for Vogue
FAIRBANKS, AK -- Sunday, February 20, 2022: Maureen Mayo, 61. Mayo decided to be traditionally tattooed when she was 58. "I said that I would do it by the time I was 60," she says. Mayo says that for her, the tattoos represent healing, spirituality, and a connection to her culture. "They represent being who I am." She said that her mother had told her stories about women doing the practice and that had stuck with her throughout her life./ASH ADAMS for Vogue
FAIRBANKS, AK -- Sunday, February 20, 2022: Jaida Attla holds her son, Saint Maikoa Isaac Attla, 4 months old, after Jody Potts-Joseph traditionally tattoos her hand.//ASH ADAMS for Vogue
FAIRBANKS, AK -- Sunday, February 20, 2022: Jody Potts-Joseph tattoos her niece, Jae Pitka. /ASH ADAMS for Vogue
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Tuesday, April 12, 2022: Senator Lisa Murkowski stands for a portrait in the Anchorage Museum after speaking with attendees of the Alaska Climate Youth Summit./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Tuesday, April 12, 2022: Senator Lisa Murkowski stands for a portrait in the Anchorage Museum after speaking with attendees of the Alaska Climate Youth Summit./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Monday, April 11, 2022: U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka speaks at a campaign event at Great Alakka Pizza Co./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Monday, April 11, 2022: A crowd listens as U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka speaks at a campaign event at Great Alakka Pizza Co./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Maleika Jones and Gregory Shuaib, in their home./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Maleika Jones watches as Saaima Sadiq adds a tomato based to the biryani./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: A prayer hangs at the Islamic Community Center of Anchorage. /ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Maleika Jones holds the marinated lamb she and Sadiq will use to make biryani./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Saaima Sadiq shows Maleika how much coloring to add to the biryani before allowing it to finish cooking./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Maleika Jones places finished dishes on her table./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Chicken chickpea curry./ASH ADAMS for The New York Times
STEVENS VILLAGE, AK -- Tuesday, August 3, 2021: Stevens Village Chief David Kriska with his wife, Cheryl Kriska, and children (from left) Brady Anarose Kriska, 4, Edison Lillian Kriska, 2, and Walter Andrew Maillelle, 10, outside of their home./Ash Adams
STEVENS VILLAGE, AK -- Tuesday, August 3, 2021: Chief PJ Simon, Chief and Chairman for Tanana Chiefs Conference in Stevens Village on the bank of the Yukon River. The Tanana Chiefs Conference held its subregional meeting in Stevens Village this summer, bringing together leaders from several communities for two days of meetings and celebration./Ash Adams
STEVENS VILLAGE, AK -- Tuesday, August 3, 2021: The Yukon River./Ash Adams
YUKON RIVER, AK -- Wednesday August 4, 2021: Darrell Kriska checks on fish hanging at his fish camp on the Yukon River, about a one-hour boatride from his home in Stevens Village. Kriska says that in years past, all of the racks and beams would be covered with salmon. Kriska says he fished for his family and his extended family this year, but that it takes much longer to get far less fish than the family is used to, due in part by the low salmon run this year and regulations that have changed the size of the nets allowed for subsistsence fishing. Kriska, who makes all of his nets himself, made a 4-inch net this year to fish with per regulations./Ash Adams
YUKON RIVER, AK -- Wednesday August 4, 2021: Darrell Kriska boards his boat at his fish camp on the Yukon River, about a one-hour boatride from his home in Stevens Village, before heading home after checking on the salmon that's hanging on the racks and feeding his dog, Maggie, who watches te camp while he is gone. Kriska says he fished for his family and his extended family this year, but that it takes much longer to get far less fish than the family is used to, due in part by the low salmon run this year and regulations that have changed the size of the nets allowed for subsistsence fishing. Kriska, who makes all of his nets himself, made a 4-inch net this year to fish with per regulations. Kriska works in construction, building homes, including the structures on his properties./Ash Adams
ANCHORAGE, AK --Wednesday, Octobr 20, 2021: Cynthia Ivan (right) with her girlfriend, Lulu Demantle, who is also, like Ivan, originally from Akiak./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
ANCHORAGE, AK --Wednesday, Octobr 20, 2021: Bethel, Alaska, the hub village in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region where Ivan lived./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: The view from the living room of Thecla and Norman Xavier's home in Pilot Station. The family could see the clinic where their son was dying of Covid-19 and their daughter was struggling with complications as well, but they couldn't be there until the end. Due to the volatile fall weather, the medivac wasn't able to land in Pilot Station until the day after Joseph Xavier died from Covid-19 in the clinic, at whiich time it picked up Joseph's sister, Natasia Xavier. Nastasia was then in a coma for twenty-one days in Seattle./ ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Thecla Xavier looks out the window in her home while Norman Xavier, diagnosed wiith dementia, rests on the couch. After the death of their son Joseph Xavier in 2020, the family says that Norman stopped speaking. He was later diagnosed with dementia./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Thecla Xavier stands in the bedroom of her late son Joseph Xavier. "You can feel something in here," she says../ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Thecla Xavier stands in the bedroom of her late son Joseph Xavier. "You can feel something in here," she says../ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Nastasia Xavier, the sister of the late Joesph Xavier, displays a photograph on her phone from last winter, when she was in a coma from Covid-19. Xavier was in a coma for 21 days and is still dealing with complications from the disease. She just returned from heart surgery last month, she says./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Nastasia Xavier was in a coma for 21 days in the winter of 2020, a complication of Covid-19. While she was in a coma, she needed to be intubated through incisions in her neck./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: Joseph Xavier's grave in the cemetery in Pilot Station./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA
PILOT STATION, AK -- Saturday, October 23, 2021: A cross hangs from Thecla Xavier's four-wheeler in Pilot Station. She says she put it there to keep away the bears./ASH ADAMS Pilot Station USA