Most of the gardens in Southeast Alaska are spring gardens, they come into color early, pushing the snow aside and popping up with golden Daffodils,… Continue reading
In early August, I went up Gold Ridge in hopes of finding the big, blue, broad-petalled gentian in bloom. Being a rather impatient sort, I’d… Continue reading
The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or plant life. Send your photos to: Outdoors Editor, outdoors@juneauempire.com. For all… Continue reading
SAGANAVIRKTOK RIVER — August, here so soon. And we just passed Trans-Alaska Pipeline mile 100, which means that distance remains on our summer hike from… Continue reading
Cruise ships. Those words elicit a firestorm of opinion in many Alaskans. Some see the potential economic benefit and decide that’s enough reason to roll… Continue reading
ATIGUN RIVER — Goodbye, red squirrels. On our summer-long hike along the path of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, this morning my dog Cora and I left… Continue reading
As a geologist considering issues of sustainability, I tend to ponder timescales that go far beyond that of a human lifetime. For example, many of… Continue reading
One July day I was moseying along a streambank, looking at the alders. Both red and Sitka alders grew there, but I was focused on… Continue reading
Reader-submitted images of Mother Nature in Southeast The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or plant life. Send your… Continue reading
Reader-submitted images of Mother Nature in Southeast Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or… Continue reading
On one of many dribbly days in July, as I wandered along a beach on North Douglas, I noticed a little plant with white flowers.… Continue reading
We went to Kake to install a landscape around an Elder Housing Project built by Tlingit Haida Regional Housing Authority (THRHA). We carried our plants,… Continue reading
This is part of a series of monthly columns about STEM in Juneau. One of the best sounds to my ears is listening to students… Continue reading
At University of Alaska Anchorage, two students are on an interdisciplinary quest to unlock the anthropological and archaeological importance of caribou teeth. Yes, caribou teeth.… Continue reading
People sometimes have this idea that living in the bush is serious business, and it can be. But I rarely got that impression growing up… Continue reading
Juneau. It was a cool and clear Bastille Day, July 14, 2017, when we entered the Tracy Arm and Ford’s Terror Wilderness Area on the… Continue reading
I had the opportunity of meeting the small group of youth and young adults as they assembled at the head of a trail leading into… Continue reading
Juneau is a city lacking for flat spaces. Most hiking trails on the road system trace paths up switchbacks, across stair steps of muskeg and… Continue reading
Each year there seems to be a particular plant that captures my imagination. Last year it was rose petals. I spent weeks testing different ideas,… Continue reading
The weekly sport fish report is written by the Alaska Department of Fish &Game and made available to the public on a weekly basis. For… Continue reading
