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…
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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…
Brain trust at Fish Creek
One of the things I love about this community is ‘information density,’ most palpable when a bunch of really experienced…
Through alien eyes
Decolonizing cartography Learning about cultures and places from those least disposed to value or understand them can be unsettling and…
SEALT & Discovery Southeast groupwalk
Touring lands on Back Loop Road Discovery Southeast and the Southeast Alaska Land Trust (SEALT) have similar missions. Discovery works…
Roads of Xunaa Káawu
Impacts and opportunities: logging roads of Northeast Chichagof Visits to Hoonah rank among the highlights of my year. Especially so…
Teachers’ outings 2021
What a pleasure to hang out with teachers again! From June 10 to 13th, 2021, Steve Merli, Kelly Sorensen and…
Finishing the winter-range story
Mid-May, 2021 Mountain goats are leaving the forested cliffs where they took refuge through much of the winter, and moving…
Wetlands Month features Mendenhall Wetlands
Frontyard wetlands in StoryMaps Every May is American Wetlands Month, and this year, it’s especially interesting for residents of Áak’w…
Birds, beavers & Bob
Hands-off Seaweek At Discovery we offer hands-on activities in nature. So it’s been tough on us as well as the…
First post from refashioned blog
20210507 Slumbering blog awakens Greetings, Southeast Alaskans. As you might note from the last dated post, this is my first…