
Nature near the schools: Tracking
Powerpoint & script for winter Nature Studies Discovery’s winter unit on tracking and sign interpretation (largely on mammals but also…
1990 | Richard Carstensen | powerpoint & scriptDiscoverySoutheast.org
Bob Armstrong’s nursing-fawn photo on right sums up the defining talent of mammals: warm-blooded, hairy milk-producers. (Well, I guess we guys can only lay claim to the first 2 attributes.)
Mammals is divided into Carnivores, Hooved and Rodents. Explore those sub-categories or view the entire JuneauNature hierarchy at this site map.
Not counting marine mammals, we have 57 known species in Southeast Alaska. No attempt is made in Juneaunature to describe or even list them all. A comprehensive introduction is in the Mammals section of The Nature of Southeast Alaska (Carstensen, Armstrong & O’Clair), and a more exhaustive treatment with range maps is in MacDonald & Cook’s Mammals and Amphibians of Southeast Alaska.
Powerpoint & script for winter Nature Studies Discovery’s winter unit on tracking and sign interpretation (largely on mammals but also…
1990 | Richard Carstensen | powerpoint & scriptTips and tools from a versatile naturalist-photographer My buddy Bob Armstrong has experimented with a broad range of cameras for…
2020 | Bob Armstrong | 43 pagesUnder the snow The third issue of Discoveries has a feature article by Kathy Hocker on animal adaptations to the…
1996 winter | Kathy Hocker & Richard Carstensen | 6 pagesFilmed all these clips in less than 2 hours at Mendenhall Visitor Center today. Never would have guessed what a…
2017 | Richard Carstensen | 3 minutesShort video clip of a shrew—either Sorex cinereus or monticolus—sole Southeast genus in the order Soricomorpha. In July, 2012, hikers…
2012 | Richard Carstensen | 23 secondsReport to the Southeast Alaska Land Trust on habitats and wildlife use of glacially-rebounding valleys from 25 to 28-mile Glacier…
2003 | Richard Carstensen & Kathy Hocker | 35 pages