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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 for facing-pages printing 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, still 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 that 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.

PS Spring 2020: Til now there have been 21 newsletter pdfs archived here on JuneauNature. But there’s actually a total of 30 in my bindered hardcopy collection. This winter I ‘salvaged’ the entire series by rescanning, running character recognition, and migrating em to the more screen-friendly landscape format. I’ll be gradually adding these old issues, and updating the existing ones in this chronologically sorted sequence:

1_1995spr_springyet

2_1995fa_southbound

3_1996wi_undersnow

4_1996fall_streamwalkers

5_1997wi_bears&us

6_1997su_wildwatershed

7_1997fall_xutsimpressions

8_1998wi_mexico

9_1998fa_art&noticing

10_1999wi_wolfshed

11_1999spr_wetlandbirds

12_1999fall_noname