• Narrow Cape on Kodiak Island with Ugak Island in the distance. Photo by Tom Kuckertz, PWSRCAC
  • Kodiak Launch Complex. Target missiles are launched from this complex to test U.S. capabilities for destroying incoming missiles. Photo by Tom Kuckertz, PWSRCAC
  • Surf is up at beach near Kodiak Launch Complex. Pasagshak Point is in distance. Photo by Tom Kuckerts, PWSRCAC.
  • Shaft Peak on Kodiak Island. Photo by Tom Kuckertz, PWSRCAC
  • Pasagshak Bay on Kodiak Island. Photo by Tom Kuckertz, PWSRCAC.
  • Vacation and second homes at Pasagshak Bay on Kodiak Island. Photo by Tom Kuckertz, PWSRCAC
  • Island between Kodiak and Kenai Peninsula.
  • Port Lyons, Kodiak Island.
  • Old Harbor, on Kodiak Island.
  • Kodiak is called the Emerald Ilse because it's so green during summer.
  • Akhiok, a community on Kodiak Island.
  • Akhiok, on Kodiak Island.
  • This privately onwed historic building--the "Prince William Sound Inn"--stands in Thumb Cove, part of Mummy Bay on Kight Island. (Photo by Bill Driskell)
  • Valdez is the southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline. One of Prince William Sound RCAC's tasks is to monitor operations at the Valdez tanker terminal.
  • Summer day near Valdez.
  • Valdez boat harbor
  • A calm day in Port Valdez.
  • "Million Dollar Bridge" near Cordova.
  • Cordova boat harbor.
  • Whittier from the air.
  • Whittier.
  • Near Whittier.
  • Icebergs calve from Columbia Glacier into the sound. An ice detection system helps oil tankers avoid them.
  • Seldovia is on the Kenai Peninsula across from Homer on the south shore of Kachemak Bay.
  • Seldovia in winter.
  • Church at Chenega Bay, an Alutiiq community.
  • Chenega Bay from the air.
  • Salmon in Prince William Sound.
  • Seiner in Chenega Bay.
  • Hauling in the catch aboard a Chenega Bay seiner.
  • Coastline and mountains in Prince William Sound.
  • Kids in Chenega Bay.
  • Fresh food from sea and land.
  • The Homer Spit extends four miles into Kachemak Bay.
  • Aerial of Kodiak.
  • Fishing boats drydocked in Kodiak.
  • Kodiak Island
  • Kodiak is the largest island in Alaska, second only to Hawaii in the United States.
  • Kalsin Bay on Kodiak Island.
  • Deer abound on Kodiak.
  • Cattle from one of the island's ranches meander a lonely Kodiak road near the shore.
  • Kodiak's coastline changes continuously by force of wind and wave.
  • Bison roam fields near Kodiak's rocket launch complex.
  • Yellow containment boom is laid on the water at Tatitlek during a drill.
  • Tatitlek as seen from the Tatitlek Narrows. Tatitlek is a coastal Alutiiq village with a fishing- and subsistence-based culture.
  • Seward's port is ice-free year round.
  • Seward boat harbor.
  • Stockdale Harbor on Montague Island, a large island at the mouth of Prince William Sound.
  • Montague Island.
  • Herring Bay in Prince William Sound.
  • Herring Bay. Photo by Jim Payne, Payne Environmental Consultants, Inc.
  • Aerial of Prince William Sound.
  • Sunrise in the sound. Photo by Jim Payne, Payne Environmental Consultants, Inc.
  • Typical shoreline in Prince William Sound.
  • Columbia Glacier and calved icebergs.
  • Aerial of glacier.
  • Merging glaciers. Lateral moraines of rock and debris meet to form medial moraines.
  • Many glaciers feed into Prince William Sound.
  • Sunset in the sound.
  • Kasitsna Bay Laboratory, near Seldovia.
  • Kasitsna Bay Laboratory, near Seldovia.
  • Sunset from the highway near Homer.
  • Mt. Augustine, active volcano in lower Cook Inlet.
  • Winter ferry ride between Whittier and Valdez.
  • The Chugach Range on a flight from Anchorage to Cordova.
  • Prince William Sound is host to fjords and tidewater glaciers.
  • A creek meanders through a snowy field.
  • A beautiful sunset in Cordova.
  • Sunset in Cordova.
  • Council board member Patience Andersen Faulkner teaches beading to Cordova students.
  • Whittier from the air.
  • Oil spill response equipment is stored in Conex containers at Tatitlek.
  • A knot board in the Tatitlek village hall.
  • The interior of the Russian Orthodox Church at Tatitlek.
  • One of two streets in the Village of Tatitlek. Tatitlek is one of only two small Native Alaskan villages in Prince William Sound.
  • “Dream catchers” made by students during the Tatitlek Cultural Festival are displayed during the community dinner.
  • Masks and fish prints made by students during the Tatitlek Cultural Festival are displayed during the community dinner. Students were taught the fish printing by Tamara Byrnes of PWSRCAC staff.
  • Sharon Marchant (Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.) displays a headdress made during the Tatitlek Cultural Festival accompanied by Dave Totemoff (President of Tatitlek IRA Council).
  • Betty Mcintosh donates a handmade quilt to the auction every year during the Tatitlek Cultural Festival.
  • Grumman goose mask.
  • Sergei completed his amulet bag in Patience Andersen Faulkner’s Skin Sewing Class.
  • A fish processing class is offered to secondary students in Tatitlek.
  • Aerial of Tatitlek.
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