Bishop 1985 Chuck River
Wall tenting below zero On this, my first job with Environaid, I didn’t pay attention to WHY we sloshed around…
1985 | Dan Bishop | 28 pages
Our backyard transboundary corridor
The largest Southeast province spans 2,678 square miles, of which glaciers cover 422, 16% of total land area.
T’aakú has several translations. Commonest is flood of geese. Along with Aalséix, resting (Alsek River) and Shtax’héen, water biting itself, (Stikine), Taku River is one of just 3 primary lowland corridors from BC into Southeast. Taku watershed drains about 5,000 square miles of British Columbia, equal in size to the combined Alsek/Tatshenshini, and exceeded only by the Stikine’s (~19,000 sq mi).
Receding Norris Glacier in center (no recorded Lingít name). Lobe of advancing T’aakú Kwáan Sít’i, Taku peoples’ glacier (Taku) on right. Grizzly Bar in foreground. This outwash flat supports sparse woodland on excessively drained coarse sediment. Subalpine fir—an interior conifer —extends downriver to Grizzly Bar, one of its few lowland occurrences in Southeast.
Receipt of the new IfSAR-generated bare-earth layer in October, 2015, inspired me to extend Juneau’s surficial geology mapping toward the Canadian border. T’aakú Kwáan place names are from Thornton & Martin, 2012.
The province’s standout feature is the river itself. Lowland connectivity gives T’aakú Province 36 mammal species, second only to Chilkat Province in diversity. (Áak’w Province is third). It’s also probable that the greater CBJ has the highest bird diversity in Southeast (Paul Suchanek, pers comm).
The only substantial extent of large-tree forest (dark green) in T’aakú Province was in Hobart Bay, and this was logged by Goldbelt Corporation. (Apologies for all the IWGNs; this map long preceded publication of the cultural atlas)
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Disco to Ford’s Terror, 1994
All in the timing In days before accurate tide tables, this place would indeed have gotten your attention. The…
1996 | Richard Carstensen | 10 pages
The Cruise: landforms of T’aaḵú Aaní
On Sunday Sept-11 we motored 53 miles southeast from Áak’w into T’aakú Aaní, exploring landforms from the water. In Avenza,…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | geopdfs for T’aaḵú cruise
T’aaḵú X̱’aka.aan: mouth of the great Taku
Perfect location (except in an ice storm) In 2012, L’eeneidí historian Liana Wallace sent me a high-res scan of Waggoner…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | 22 pages
First encounters
Áak’w & T’aaḵú country in 1794 Back in 2010, when first collaborating with Goldbelt Heritage, I began to mine the archives…
2011 updated 2021 | Richard Carstensen | 36-minute slideshow
Repeat photography Part-1: aerials
Retakes field journals, 2005 season Summarizing the Repeat Photography Project, Kathy Hocker and I divided our reports into 2 parts:…
2005; 2nd ed, 2013 | Richard Carstensen & Kathy Hocker | 39 pages
Áak’w & T’aakú Aaní: the natural history of resilience
Presentation for Evening at Egan On November 9th, 2018, I gave the second in a series of 4 lectures for…
Nov, 2018 | Richard Carstensen | 36 minutes
2018 flight, Juneau to Klawock
On July 1st, 2018, I flew from Juneau to Klawock in superb photography weather. Beautiful lighting after we passed out…
2018 | Richard Carstensen | 44 pages
Behrends avalanche
Three days after an avalanche came down Behrends Slide, near Juneau, Alaska, I went up for some raven’s-eye perspectives. The…
2017 | Richard Carstensen | 2.5 minutes
Sweetheart lake flights
In 2011 and 2012, I helped survey proposed hydro facilities at Sweetheart Lake and estuary, about 40 air-miles south of…
2011&12 | Richard Carstensen | 25 page excerpt
2000 spring newsletter: River relations
Corridors for fish, wildlife and people Connections between the coastal rainforest and the boreal interior. For millennia, transboundary rivers have…
2000 | Richard Carstensen, Steve Merli | 9 pages