Old Army recreation cabin at Army Point on Lake Louise Lake Louise (Sasnuu Bene’ in Athabascan) is the eastern-most of a series of interconnected lakes on the Lake Louise Plateau at the Copper River...
Before the Federal government began construction of the Alaska Railroad in 1914, there were only scattered homesteads in the Matanuska and Susitna valleys. However, even before the Alaska Engineering Commission (AEC), the federal agency...
Milk vetch may be taking over Fairbanks, but fireweed can still be found in abundance if you know where to look. This fireweed is in a backyard along Second Street in Graehl.
Interesting clouds I saw while at the Georgeson Botanical Garden tonight. These ripply, swirly clouds were at the leading edge of storm clouds moving into the area. They only lasted a few minutes.
Looking northeast towards Birch Hill from the William Ranson Wood pedestrian bridge in downtown Fairbanks. I took this photo in a slight drizzle at about 6:00 AM.
Mixed in with the highbush cranberries in our front yard are a few native monkshood plants. Just one plant appeared a few years ago–don’t know where the seeds came from. There are now two...
6:30 AM at the lagoon at the end of Hamilton Avenue in Fairbanks.
This historic cabin is one of the few remnants of the Chistochiona Trading Post, which burned down in 1999 Gold was discovered along the Chistochina River in late 1898 by argonauts originally headed for...
About 14 miles southwest of Wasilla on the western shore of Cook Inlet’s Knik Arm lies the hamlet of Knik. Its history may be most linked with the 1910 Iditarod Gold Rush and the...
