Fishwheels at Nenana
Here are two fish wheels on the bank of the Tanana River just outside Nenana, ready to be put in the water. Fishwheels, which can often be seen along Interior Alaska rivers, actually were...
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Copper River Delta root art
My family lives in Cordova, on the eastern edge of Prince William Sound. One of out favorite summer activities was driving out to the middle of the Copper River Delta about 30 miles...
Gold Dredge No. 8: A giant that helped save Fairbanks
The Fairbanks Exploration Company’s Gold Dredge No. 8 at Fox (shown in the drawing) is perhaps the most visible and well-known dredge in the Fairbanks area, but the FE Co. actually operated eight of...
Beautiful bearberry blossoms
When I was out traveling earlier this week I found some large mats of kinnikinnik or common bearberry that were in bloom. Kinnikinnik (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) is a low trailing evergreen shrub found on sandy...
Day trip to Tanacross
St. Timothy’s Church I just returned from a day trip to Tanacross, which is about eight miles west of Tok. Tanacross (formerly known as Tanana Crossing) is an Athabascan Indian village. I went...
Lupen, shooting stars and bluebells near Tok, Alaska
Arctic Lupen I took Monday off and we drove down to Tok. Here are some wildflower photos I took. Arctic lupen (Lipinus Arcticus) found on gravel bars and in open areas, along roadsides throughout...
SS Nenana – The last steamboat to Fairbanks
SS Nenana along the Lower Yukon River during the 1940s (originally posted on 9-11-2012 – revised on 4-30-2018) The SS Nenana has been one of the premier attractions at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks....
Found art – cast-offs discovered in the woods
Its doesn’t take much to make me happy: a forgotten whatcha-ma-call-it gradually being buried by leaves and twigs, or an old barrel mouldering in a stand of black spruce. You never know what you...
Prickly Rose blossoms blanket the woods nearby
A few days ago I mentioned that the Prickly Roses (Rosa acicularis) were about to bloom. They have now erupted into blossoms. Here are a couple of photos.
High-bush cranberries are blooming in Fairbanks
The high-bush cranberries in our front yard are in full bloom. These are “Alaskan” high-bush cranberries (Viburnum edule). They are not to be confused with American high-bush cranberries (Viburnum trilobum), even though...
