Category: Pictures

WEST JUNEAU WEEKLY PICTURE Red Squirrel The Red Squirrel – Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777) – is indigeneous and common in Alaska. This squirrel was in a small Sitka spruce tree (Picea sitchensis) by the house and is holding in it’s paws a willow seed capsule from which it was eating the seeds; the capsule gotten … Continue reading "Red Squirrel"

WEST JUNEAU WEEKLY PICTURE Granite Creek Basin with Olds Mountain This picture was taken 3.3 miles E/ENE of the State Capitol which is on 4th Street in downtown Juneau, Alaska. The peak of Olds Mountain, elevation 4,453 feet above mean sea level, is roughly 1-1/2 miles from where the photographer was standing at an elevation … Continue reading "Granite Creek Basin with Olds Mountain"

WEST JUNEAU WEEKLY PICTURE Fog Over Gastineau Channel Picture by David Kent, 8:26 a.m. ADT, July 16, 2006, © 2006

WEST JUNEAU WEEKLY PICTURE Iceberg Picture of iceberg taken from Steve and Winona Weber’s Adventure Bound at Holkham Bay 44 miles SE of Juneau, Alaska on a trip to Tracy Arm Fjord. Picture by O. Richard (Dick) Kent, 10:39 a.m. ADT, May 16, 2006, © 2006

WEST JUNEAU WEEKLY PICTURE Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley and Beyond from High in the Sky Picture taken from a helicopter over Mendenhall Lake looking SW. Foreground: U.S.D.A. Forest Service Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area. Counter-clockwise from lower right: Mendenhall River, West Mendenhall Valley – stretching into the Mendenhall Peninsula in the upper center of the picture, Auke … Continue reading "Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley and Beyond from High in the Sky"