St. Elias Mountains

The southern portion of the ecoregion lies within the rain shadow of the St. Elias Mountains.

Yukon Interior dry forests 2008

It is bounded by the Gulf of Alaska to the west, Cross Sound and Icy Strait to the south, the Chilkat Range and Canada to the east, and the St. Elias Mountains, Alsek River and Tongass National Forest to the north/

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, United States 2008

HAINES JUNCTION, Yukon Territory - A veil of smoke settled over the forest in the shadow of the St. Elias Mountains, in a wilderness whose spruce trees stood tall and gray, a deathly gray even in the greenest heart of a Yukon summer.

The Vail Trail - All Sections 2009

Hungry bugs could slash animal-gas danger forest in the shadow of the St. Elias Mountains, in a wilderness whose spruce trees stood tall and gray, a deathly gray even in the greenest

WN.com - Business News 2009

This ship-deck-based August 1980 photograph of Muir Glacier and Muir Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, St. Elias Mountains, Alaska, shows the nearly 200-ft-high retreating tidewater end of Muir Glacier with part of its face capped by a few angular pinnacles of ice, called séracs.

USGS Newsroom 2008