Fifty friends on backloop moraines
On a sunny July 17th, 2021, Discovery Southeast and the Southeast Alaska Land Trust hosted a sort of ‘house-warming’ walk, bushwhacking southwest from the top of River Road into lands we steward. Turnout was gratifying. This 8-minute slideshow has some of the highlights of our adventure, plus glacial and human histories (rather map-heavy) that were hard to communicate well in the field.
JuneauNature already has several related resources to put this relatively narrow, back loop geographic focus in its broader context:
● For postglacial history, two of my earlier slideshows collectively cover much of what we’ve learned from 40 years of explorations. First is Discovery’s education and research at The Glacier. Second is a higher-tech view, from drone and LiDAR, called Raven’s-eye views of postglacial succession.
● For more on the oblique visualization used in this back loop show, see 1867-2017: 150 years of change, created for the City Museum in the Seward Sesquicentennial.
● My 2-part slide show—Juneau’s dairy history: Parts 1 & 2—has more about the Euro experience of Áak’w Táak, inland from little lake (Mendenhall valley)
Please check with the Discovery office—(907) 463-1500 or info@discoverysoutheast.org—before entering the River Road forest.
