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Original Caption: Having Spent Two Hours Creeping Up on Them, Photographer Dennis Cowals Prepares to Take Pictures of a Flock of Dall Sheep They Are Coming Down Toward the West Lick, One of Two Salt Licks on Either End of the Atigun Gorge. This View Looks South Into the Brooks Range 08/1973 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-7958 Photographer: Cowals, Dennis, 1945- Subjects: Alaska (United States) state Environmental Protection Agency Project DOCUMERICA Persistent URL:catalog.archives.gov/id/550443 Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html
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