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Snow fences are set up outside Barrow, Alaska to collect the blowing snow from the tundra. They are there to prevent significant build up of drifting snow around the houses and buildings in Barrow. While most of the snow on the tundra has melted, the snow is still deep around the snow fence.

Credit to read: Photo by Rob Wilder (PolarTREC 2007), Courtesy of ARCUS

Photographer: Rob Wilder
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2007
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PolarTREC
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North Slope, Alaska
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