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Listening to heavy rain accompanied by claps of thunder. # Coots are back on Swan Lake. Three feeding near Lake St. Shore. # Powered by Twitter Tools
Month: October 2010
Mystery Seedling Identified
Background for this post The summer I was working at Blue Lake and first noticed these seedlings, I figured they must be some sort of willow. Willows are somewhat notorious for being hard to identify, even with much more to go on than a seedling, so I did not have much expectation of being able … Read more
Mystery Seedling
A couple of years ago I helped out on some of the environmental surveys for the Blue Lake hydro project (the city is going through the process of permitting to raise the dam and thereby increase the power supply for the community). While up there, I saw several species of plants that are not especially … Read more
Wind Storm Casualties
Last week Sitka experienced a windstorm with gusts up to 75 mph. The kids and I had a fun time walking over to UAS – especially in some of the gusts that felt like they would blow us away. Unfortunately, the power line between town and the hydro projects that supply our power was knocked … Read more