The beauty of the Yukon
These photos were taken in the Peel Watershed, which is located in the northeast part of the Yukon Territory. The photos were identified by botanists from the Yukon government.
Also while in the Yukon, the 60 Minutes crew came face-to-face with a bear.
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Mountain avens
60 Minutes cameraman Don Lee took these photographs using a Canon 5D with a 100mm macro lens.
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Prickly saxifrage
Bob Simon and the 60 Minutes team traveled via float plane to a remote outfitting camp on Goz Lake. There were no roads for over 100 miles.
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Northern sweetvetch
The 60 Minutes team traveled with a "bear dog" and "bear spray" at all times when walking outside of the remote camp on Goz Lake. Grizzlies frequent both the camp and Goz Lake.
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Sudetic lousewort
The Peel Watershed is 26,000 square miles of wilderness and has no permanent settlements.
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Moss campion
The 60 Minutes team traveled to the Peel Watershed in June, just in time to catch the wildflowers in bloom.
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Felt-leaved willow
Located at the northern end of the Rocky and Mackenzie Mountains chain, the Peel Watershed is surrounded by wild rivers.
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Entire-leaved mountain avens
The Yukon is one of the most remote stretches of wilderness in North America -- home to more caribou than people.
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Net-leaved willow
The Peel Watershed has a number of animal species, including the wolverine, grizzly bear and Northern Mountain populations of caribou.
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Limestone sunshine lichen
The Peel River Watershed is one of the largest intact natural ecosystems left in North America.
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Nature's beauty
The Peel Watershed is a region of mountains, deep canyons, plateaus, wetlands, rolling hills and rivers.
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Moss campion
The horn of a Dall sheep in the Peel Watershed.
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