Voles are fuzzy mice with short tails.  They mainly eat and live in grass.  There are two genera of voles one is the Clethrionmys and the Microtus.
 There are seven species of voles.  They are, northern red-backed vole; Gapper’s red-backed vole; meadow vole; tundra vole; long-tailed vole; yellow-cheeked vole; singing vole’s.  They range in weight from 6-112 grams.
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Bowhead Whale
By:  Chelsea

 Bowhead whales are the only ones that spend their entire life in sea ice water.  They don’t even migrate to warmer waters to calve.  They are very equipped to stay in arctic and subarctic waters- they have blubber up to 1-1/2 feet thick.  They have thick craniums for breaking ice.
 There were over 50,000 bowhead whales worldwide.  Bowhead whales decreased to 30,000 to 1,000 whales between 1600s and 1800s.  The population increased to around 6,400 to 9,200 in 1992.

Source
Alaska Wildlife Notebook Series
www.state.ak.us/local/akpages/FISH.GAME/notebook/notehome.htm
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