Grab bag

This is the ‘miscellaneous’ section in Media for stuff that doesn’t quite pigeonhole into more definable formats such as books or videos.These are generally less formal productions—sometimes snippets from other documents—as opposed to ‘finished’ reports for print or digital publication. Also in this section are digital versions of sign content for ten 3-panel sign arrays at trailheads throughout the CBJ.

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Happy goat-year, 2023!

A calendar for mountain goats, naturally! Best wishes for the new year, to Discovery members and Jánwu lovers everywhere! Our…

Draft goat calendar 2023

Jánwu’s year in Áak’w Aaní; digital version Within a few months of beginning our mountain goat study in October, 2020.…

2023 | Richard Carstensen | 28 pages

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

Mammals of Lingít Aaní

Resources from Discovery’s early days In winter 2021-22, we’re pulling together materials for our Nature Studies naturalists, for units on…

2022 | Richard Carstensen | 23 pages

Albatross retraced

If Harriman had been serious About 120 years ago the steamer Albatross conducted watershed surveys, interviews and salmon distribution studies…

2019 | Richard Carstensen | 54 pages

Auke Bay School-UAS historical series

History from the air Georeferencing old and recent vertical air photos in ArcMap makes it easy to export exactly scaled-&-aligned…

2021 | Richard Carstensen | 9 pages

Nature near the schools: Auke Bay Elementary. 1991

Materials from the Eisenhower Math and Science series In October, 1990, with Cathy Pohl and Gretchen Bishop, I gave a…

1991 | Carstensen, Pohl, Bishop | workshop materials

Nature near the schools: Sayéik (Gastineau) Elementary. 1991

Materials from the Eisenhower Math and Science series In March, 1991, with Discovery director Cinda Stanek and naturalist Cathy Pohl,…

1991 | Richard Carstensen | 22 pages

Sayéik historical series

History from the air Georeferencing old and recent vertical air photos in ArcMap makes it easy to export exactly scaled-&-aligned…

2021 | Richard Carstensen | 8 pages

L’ux̱, murky water (H-word River)

Journal for my favorite glacial valley A scoping document and collection of journals from 40 years of visits to what…

2020 | Richard Carstensen | 62 pages

“Ecosystem:” a rant

A plea for semantic reassessment Sifting through journals and course manuals recently, I came upon this one-page 2018 attack on…

2020 | Richard Carstensen | 1 page

Nature near the schools: Mendenhall River Elementary. 1991

Materials from the Eisenhower Math and Science series In February, 1991, with Gustavus master-naturalist Greg Streveler, Discovery director Cinda Stanek…

1991 | Carstensen, Streveler, Stanek & Merli | workshop materials

Nature near the schools: Glacier Valley-Floyd Dryden. 1991

Materials from the Eisenhower Math and Science series In October, 1990, with Discovery director Cinda Stanek and naturalist Steve Merli,…

1990 | Carstensen, Stanek, Merli | workshop materials

Cemetery mapping, 1990-2017

College-level field mapping in elementary school Probably the most ambitious project undertaken in my pilot Nature Studies program at Harborview,…

2018 | Richard Carstensen | 46 pages

Nature near schools: 1990-93

Overview & supplementary materials In addition to school site descriptions for Juneau School District and others throughout northern Lingít Aaní,…

1990-91 | Carstensen, Streveler & Pohl | 20 pages

Birds & plane safety

Beginning in late 2001, on contract with Airport EIS consultants SWCA, Bob Armstrong and I spent a full year surveying…

2004 | Richard Carstensen & Bob Armstrong | 14 pages

Blackwell City Walk: info packet

Another great idea from Mike Cathy Connor and I (Richard Carstensen) have inherited a tradition spearheaded by our friend Mike…

2019 | Mike Blackwell, Richard Carstensen & Cathy Connor | 27 pages

Tsaa T’ei Héen (Admiralty Cove)

‘Lost village’ of Áak’w Kwáan Every Tlingit Kwáan in Southeast Alaska has at least one ‘lost village,’ known in oral history…

2018 | Richard Carstensen | 33 pages

Subsheds

Better basin boundaries During the Juneau wetland surveys in 2014, the Bosworth Botanical team (Koren Bosworth, Catherine Pohl, Andrew Allison…

2014 | Richard Carstensen | 4 pages

Tree hunting manual

The Tongass needs 50 athletes with ground-truthing skills, to range the timberlands each summer by bike, skiff, 4-wheeler and kayak,…

2018 | Richard Carstensen | 14 pages