“This pole is for the Chookaneidi, but here among us, many clans are represented…”
Guttation drops contain not only water but also sugars, proteins, and probably minerals.
You cannot see it, it’s electric.
I think bats do hibernate in interior Alaska…”
Loud and outrageous have become the recipe for sports commentary.
The corner from summer to fall is a casual turn.
Adventure, magic and feeling connected and grounded to home.
I had stopped hopping from tussock to tussock attempting to keep my feet dry. Frequent missteps and sneaky depths had put water over my gaiters… Continue reading
The Yukon is a great place to find the preserved remains of ancient creatures.
Klawock Indigenous Stewards and partners are working to a once prolific sockeye salmon run.
Colors are produced by cell structure, which can scatter light rays, making iridescence, and by pigments, which absorb or reflect particular wavelength of light. Pigments… Continue reading
When my little Ford pickup chugged into Alaska 36 years ago this month, I didn’t know a wheel dog from a dog salmon. You could… Continue reading
Like the berries, the language lives on the land.
“This work is restorative…”
There were good minus tides in May and June, and I went out with some friends to take a look at the intertidal zone in… Continue reading
“It’s the largest sockeye hatchery in the world. Two-hundred and sixty miles from the ocean.”
I was going to title this essay, “Inflation 101,” but the number keeps going up
There’s way more than blue genes.