
2003 winter newsletter: A deer’s map of the forest
Seeing the forest through a deer’s eyes. Thoughts on forest structure and habitat values, resulting in large measure from travels…
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The first issue of Discoveries was in spring, 1995, when we were nearly a decade old. Our new executive director, Susan Goes, had layout experience, and set us up with a pagemaker template that I used for many years. In the beginning, our aspirations were for a quarterly publication. I tried to compose a thoughtful feature for every issue on some topic in natural history—a complement to the organizational news written by a succession of directors.
Our last printed newsletter, in the old facing-pages format, was in spring 2011. Although membership updates and Discovery news still goes out through the mail, like all organizations we increasingly communicate through website, email and social media. Much of our decline in substantive natural history essays is certainly on me; I find less time in my year, lately, to set other obligations aside, and spend two weeks polishing an essay I—and Discovery—can be proud of.
But those newsletters remain, archived here. I hope you find them as relevant today as when they were written.
Seeing the forest through a deer’s eyes. Thoughts on forest structure and habitat values, resulting in large measure from travels…
Thoughts on whether to publicize special places.Triggered by exasperation over titles like: The 30 Most Remote Places on Earth (Outside…
. . .and other enigmatic amphibians Report on Discovery’s first year of research on amphibian habitat relations, on contract with…
2002 | Richard Carstensen, Kathy Hocker | 12 pagesConnections between the coastal rainforest and the boreal interior. For millennia, transboundary rivers have served as portals for species colonization,…
2000 | Richard Carstensen, Steve Merli | 9 pagesReport from a visit to the mountains of central Mexico, in search of migrants who summer with us here in…
Twenty million years on Xutsnoowú, bear fortress (Admiralty Island). Back to the days before glaciers turned it into an island,…
5 | Richard Carstensen | 5 pagesThoughts on animal tracking with teachers and students, an activity that by 1996 had become the core of our winter…
1996 winter | Richard Carstensen | 2 pagesAbout a decade after Discovery’s founding, we began collaborating with stream restoration initiatives. I served as a liaison between researchers…
1996 | Richard Carstensen | 3 pagesA clue-reading toolkit for Southeast naturalists My feature article for Discoveries developed what had become a mantra among our naturalists:…
In our Summer 2003 newsletter you’ll find an article by then-Discovery naturalist Kathy Hocker on the “risen valleys” area between…
Summer 2003 | Kathy Hocker | 10 pagesOur Fall 2001 newsletter includes an article by Steve Merli exploring the benefits of going off trail with kids, and…
Fall 2001 | Steve Merli, Richard Carstensen | 6 pagesOn the solstice, I walked the Flume Trail above Dzantik’i Héeni, flounders creek (Gold Creek). Enamored of my newest tool—a…
Summer 2001 | Richard Carstensen | 4 pagesNexus explains how estuaries develop, their food webs, and their importance to the greater archipelago. Includes field notebook page from…
2004 | Richard Carstensen, Kathy Hocker | 12 pagesMy feature essay explores native and non-native places names in Southeast Alaska. Another piece by Kathy Hocker discusses the importance…
Fall 1999 | Richard Carstensen | 4 pagesKathy Hocker is Southeast Alaska’s premier artist-naturalist, teaching classes on field techniques for all ages. In 1998, she wrote a…
1998 | Kathy Hocker | 5 pagesJournaling is my work and play. It’s how I taught myself to be a naturalist, and one of the ways…
2011 | Richard Carstensen, Kathy Hocker, Kevin O'Malley | 16 pagesFeature on Sitka black-tailed deer: habitat relations, stotting, mountaintop bachelor gangs, differential wariness of bucks and does. Sketches from Kathy…
Winter 2006 | Richard Carstensen | 12 pagesFeature article on using the Socratic method in outdoor education. Title comes from our goal in field outings; chum the…
Fall 2006 | Dana Owen|Kathy Hocker|Richard Carstensen | 12 pagesDiscovery Southeast’s Winter 2013 newsletter includes my feature on the foundations of our organization. You’ll also find a profile of…
Winter 2013 | Richard Carstensen|Scott Burton | 18 pagesFeature article on response of flora and fauna to geologic landforms and bedrock types. Includes article by Scott Burton on…
Spring 2011 | Richard Carstensen | 12 pages