Dan Bishop bushwacking through a willow thicket near Yandeist’aḵyé, faraway stuff drifts ashore (old Yindastuki village). Stem on right was snapped by a moose.
Streamwalker returns
Last winter (2021-22) I posted about initial efforts to make Dan Bishop’s papers available for digital download. Scanning, reformatting and annotating is a hobby best reserved for the short-days ‘off-season,’ so most of it didn’t happen until winter swung round again.
This February (2023), while working with CBJ and Trailmix on a beaver-works headscratcher at Outer Point, I finally stumbled across an online source for the Environaid study I helped with in 1985, last time there was a strong push to extend North Douglas Highway. Recovering and formatting that report made me want to do others . . . 🙂
The result is a new subpage under JuneauNature>Media types, called Bishop-Environaid. It links to 19 content pages describing Environaid projects and reports. All of the projects I assisted with are included. There’s a strong bias toward Dan’s work in Áak’w Aaní, and a secondary concentration from his jobs in Chilkat country, where he returned many times. But I’ve added a smattering of other reports, from Yakutat to Craig.
“Let’s scan the ranks of young streamwalkers for more Dan Bishops. Watch for third graders curiously jabbing bare hands into frazil ice.” Streamwalkers, Discoveries, Fall-1996