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Every photograph on this site is a real, credited picture. None were generated, and none were upscaled. The eight pictures below are public domain or CC BY, and may be used in the paid printables. Captions say whether a scene is Arctic or alpine.

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  National Park Service, Natural Resources · Public Domain (NPS)

  Deer in the alpine tundra of Rocky Mountain National Park on a foggy morning, photographed on 18 September 2019. This is alpine tundra in Colorado, not Arctic tundra.

  National Park Service, Natural Resources, 18 September 2019. Public domain (U.S. government work). Source file. May be used in paid printables (public domain, CC0 or CC BY).

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  National Park Service · Public Domain (NPS)

  Five bighorn sheep rams sitting together on the alpine tundra of Rocky Mountain National Park, photographed on 29 January 2016. A winter scene in Colorado alpine tundra, not Arctic tundra.

  National Park Service, 29 January 2016. Public domain (U.S. government work). Source file. May be used in paid printables (public domain, CC0 or CC BY).

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  Patrick Myers, National Park Service, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve · Public Domain (NPS)

  A female Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep on alpine tundra in Great Sand Dunes National Preserve, photographed by Patrick Myers on 17 July 2019. Patches of snow still linger in mid-July. This is alpine tundra in Colorado, not Arctic tundra.

  Patrick Myers, National Park Service, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, 17 July 2019. Public domain. Source file. May be used in paid printables (public domain, CC0 or CC BY).

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  Unknown photographer, courtesy of Rocky Mountain National Park (U.S. National Archives) · Public Domain (NPS / NARA)

  Wildflowers in a high meadow along Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. A National Archives file, public domain, courtesy of the park. This is alpine tundra vegetation, not Arctic tundra.

  Unknown photographer, courtesy of Rocky Mountain National Park; U.S. National Archives NARA 7722570. Public domain. Source file. May be used in paid printables (public domain, CC0 or CC BY).

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  National Park Service · Public Domain (NPS)

  An aerial view of ice-wedge polygons on the tundra at Cape Krusenstern National Monument, in the Western Arctic National Parklands of northwest Alaska, photographed on 31 January 2013. This is Arctic patterned ground, not alpine tundra in the Rockies.

  National Park Service, 31 January 2013, Cape Krusenstern National Monument. Public domain. Source file. May be used in paid printables (public domain, CC0 or CC BY).

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  National Park Service · Public Domain (NPS)

  An aerial view of tundra polygons in Alaska, photographed on 5 September 2012, with autumn-red vegetation around the polygon edges. The file does not name a specific park. The pattern is a sign of underground permafrost, and this is Arctic tundra, not alpine tundra in the Rockies.

  National Park Service, 5 September 2012, Alaska. Public domain. The park unit is not named on the file. Source file. May be used in paid printables (public domain, CC0 or CC BY).

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  Lisa Hupp, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public Domain (USFWS)

  A caribou on the coastal-plain tundra of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, photographed by Lisa Hupp of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on 28 June 2021. This is Arctic tundra, not alpine tundra in the Rockies.

  Lisa Hupp, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 28 June 2021. Public domain (U.S. government work). Source file. May be used in paid printables (public domain, CC0 or CC BY).

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  Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, National Park Service · CC BY 2.0

  Tundra polygons and pingos — the hill-like mounds formed with water and permafrost — in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska, photographed on 12 August 2007. This is Arctic tundra on the Bering Land Bridge, not alpine tundra in the Rockies.

  Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, National Park Service, 12 August 2007. CC BY 2.0. Source file. May be used in paid printables (public domain, CC0 or CC BY).

The year-wheel on the desk is an original ReallyByte drawing, not a government figure.