Belated placejournal for a 14-subshed unit
Discovery’s place descriptions for Áak’w & T’aaḵú Aaní (CBJ) are watershed based. I’ve started to call them “placejournals.” Many date back to the Juneau Natural History project for Parks and Recreation, when I was assigned 10 watershed-based trail systems, for signage and printed interpretive materials.
But that discrete-watershed approach leaves gaps, which I’m hereby filling in for the arching 9-mile-long Treadwell-to-Fish Creek series of subsheds, each too small to individually merit a placejournal. On the map below you’ll notice that collectively (bold red outline) they resemble a female mountain goat’s horn, with ‘distal hook’ distinguishing it from the billy’s.
Or maybe that’s not the first thing that jumps to mind 🙂 After all, goats don’t even live on this side of the channel. As for its name, I’ve borrowed from the Lingít for Douglas town: X’áat’ T’áak, beside the island. That’s where the lion’s share of this document focuses. But since it’s stretching a little to apply the town’s name throughout this unit, let’s add Northeast Sayéik. If you’re more marine-oriented, you could also think of it as the island side of Séet ka, canyon strait (Gastineau Channel).
Many of our Discovery Southeast naturalists and supporters teach, live, work and play in sprawling NE Sayéik. Sorry friends, for taking so long to assemble this placejournal! I hope it was worth the wait.
Sample pages from the unit-11 place journal
Download 14MB scoping&journals pdf 
in order to upload this 73 page document to WordPress, I condensed (optimized) from a 45 megabyte original. Most pics and maps are acceptable. However you may find that some, such as the extraordinarily detailed Sanborn maps and the hot-off-the-press new LiDAR bare earth (eg p27) are disappointingly soft. Let me know if you’d like a copy of the higher resolution pdf,.
