For Rita O’Clair’s Alpine Ecology class, UAJ
In the predigital dark ages, before University of Alaska Juneau became UAS, I took quite a few classes from the inimitable invert-zoo-&-botanist Rita O’Clair. Recently, helping to assemble an atlas for the 2010-2013 team that surveyed 10 highcountry sites from Chilkat country to the Haida Islands, I found myself rereading, somewhat apprehensively, this paper that I wrote for Rita’s Alpine class, 41 years ago. To my relief, the original was actually not bad. Enough that I’m not too embarrassed to scan and reformat it for distribution here on JuneauNature.
Sample page from my reformatted and slightly updated report.
To preserve the ‘historical’ flavor, I’m making only minor style and spelling changes. Where Lingít names are known, I’ve added some retroactively, with translation in italic and colonial in parentheses. More substantial changes are relegated to footnotes beginning “2024:”
