The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has released a new way to visualize stream flow online with Streamer. This online mapping system allows water flow to be traced up or downstream from its source to where it empties into the ocean. Streamer relies on map data resolved at one million scale from the National Atlas […]
Steep Creek Juneau Sockeye Salmon Camera
The Tongass National Forest has launched a Sockeye salmon camera at Steep Creek in Juneau, Alaska. Steep Creek is near Mendenhall Glacier. The webcam is in eighteen inches of water. Sockeye arrived at the creek in mid-July and will be present until the end of August. The Forest Service notes that Steep Creek Sockeye average […]
Fast & Cold – A Guide to Alaska Whitewat
A comprehensive rivers guide to some seventy-nine Alaskan river routes loaded with practical information for erstwhile whitewater adventurers. My friend Andy Embick has been gone now for a few years and he left behind many memories. As an avid kayaker and boater, a tangible remembrance is his book Fast & Cold – A Guide to […]
John Muir Comes to Alaska – Escapades in
Naturalist John Muir first explored Alaska during a trip to the Island of Wrangell on July 14, 1879. Muir wasn’t impressed, saying “the most inhospitable place at first sight I had ever seen…There was nothing like a tavern or lodging-house in the village, nor could I find any place in the stumpy, rocky, boggy ground […]
Roll On! Discovering the Wild Stikine Ri...
If you can’t visit the Stikine River soon, experience it through Bonnie Demerjian’s book Roll On! Discovering the Wild Stikine River about the great river. Alaska and Canada’s Stikine River is one of the great trans-boundary rivers found threading its way through the coastal mountains of Southeastern Alaska and British Columbia. A friend of mine, […]
The International Stikine River: A Truly...
The watercourse running from the Spatsizi Plateau to the Pacific Ocean is a territory of superlatives, yet known simply as the Stikine River. Naturist John Muir’s initial trip up the river changed his life. He noted 300 glaciers along its shores. Details are in his book Travels in Alaska. Muir says of the Stikine, it’s […]