Nugget Falls billy
More white stuff My last post—on trumpeter swans—was only 3 days ago, and I try not to nature-nerd your inbox…
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Pondweeder swans
Trumpeters, tides and tubers Since late March, eBird’s been showing bands of 2 to 5 northbound trumpeters dispersed throughout Taashuyee-Chookan.aani,…
Goat talk’s now on JuneauNature
Natural history of Goatlandia: Jánwu of Áak’w Aaní In case you missed the Fireside talk on mountain goats back on…
Discovery staff ‘out-the-road’
Exploring Eeyák’w, small rapid (Amalga Salt Chuck) On December 2nd & 3rd, a dozen naturalists gathered for review and planning.…
Rut is on
Mountain goats are courting, and it gets kinda rough Since starting the Goatlandia project in 2020, we haven’t seen snow…
Baby time in Goatlandia
Best week for ‘mammaling’ My last post on May 10th made the case for that being the best week of…
Fish Creek peak migration
Best week of 2025 to get outside! Godwits are crow-sized shorebirds who trickle through Áak’w & T’aaḵú Aaní in small…
Eclipse from the goat camera
Blood moon At the beginning of my near-daily goatwatching stint in 2020, I bought a Nikon P1000 that zooms to…
2018 | Richard Carstensen | 1 pageEclipse from the goat camera
Blood moon At the beginning of my near-daily goatwatching stint in 2020, I bought a Nikon P1000 that zooms to…
Discovery and USFS offtrail in the Rec Area
Happy Holidays Discoverers! I’ve been thinking lately what a privileged life it’s been, ambling through forests and wetlands with like-minded…
Wild flag: SEALT & SEAGLA ‘Out-the-Road’
Bushwacking with Southeast Alaska LGBTQ+ Alliance (SEAGLA) On June 29th, 2024, Southeast Alaska Land Trust (SEALT) hosted SEAGLA on their…
A puzzle solved (and a calendar)
T’aawáḵ dísi ● when geese fly & call (January) Best wishes for 2024! I noticed on the trail, this January…
Escape to ‘beautiful face’
Outdoors with teachers Yadaa.at Kalé means beautifully adorned face, of slopes rising northeast from the highschool named for them (JDH).…
Tracking Asx̱’ée (Eagle River)
A spatial genealogy Back in April, 2022, Steve Merli and I helped get the word out about a tracking workshop…
Discovery & Land Trust go bushwacking again
Off trail in Áak’w Táak, inland from little lake (M-word Valley) What a great field day! Discovery Southeast and the…
Spring avalanches
Snowslides and critters Last year around this time I posted video and thoughts about the relationship of critters to avalanches—both…
Bones & tracks
Everything is a track (especially a bone) For a recent Discovery staff session—one of those sideways-rainy days when you still…
2022 avalanches
Snowslide cartography When weather clears and risk-level drops, I’ve been trying to keep up with this winter’s avalanches by flying…
Happy ‘goating’ in 2022!
Wrapping up the 2021 Jánwu journal January 1st, 2022: Most radio commentators appear quite ready to bid good riddance to…
Goats of late summer
Goatlandia has been generous to the ‘overseers,’ who’ve dwelt mostly in a pretty narrow belt between 2,800 and 3,200 feet…