Wild Places and the Thawing Arctic | Outdoor Explorer

By Martha Rosenstein

Published July 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM AKDT

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CAPTION: Beneath multiple thermokarst landslides caused by permafrost thaw, we tow our packrafts up Kalulutok Creek to avoid bushwhacking in a brush-thickened valley created by the Greening of the Arctic. — Beneath multiple thermokarst landslides caused by permafrost thaw, we tow our packrafts up Kalulutok Creek to avoid bushwhacking in a brush-thickened valley created by the Greening of the Arctic.

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Martha Rosenstein

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Martha Rosenstein

Martha Rosenstein was born and raised in Alaska. She is a Family Nurse Practitioner with a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Alaska Anchorage. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Washington in Seattle. She currently sees patients in Anchorage, Girdwood, and occasionally in smaller communities in rural Alaska.

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