Foxes

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“ Only the Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus) and the Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) inhabit Alaska. The Arctic and Red Fox appear in varying forms of fur, wheras their three southern relatives maintain the same appearance. The Red Fox is the most common. Their varied race reaches well into the Alaska Peninsula, north to Nome. The Red Fox maintains a larger portion of Alaska land mass. The Red Fox appears in a silver phase, a mottled phase called a cross fox, and in the traditional red phase.

The Arctic Fox, in the northern extremes of their range, are pure white in winter and turn grey-brown in the summer. Arctic Foxes living along Alaska's coastline are solid grey-blue. ”

An excerpt from Bill Kitzmiller's Kachemak Wilderness Notes.