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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 from an adjacent Sitka willow tree (Salix sitchensis).
Picture by O. Richard (Dick) Kent, Spring 2002, © 2006
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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 of 1,760 feet in Granite Creek Basin. The Granite Creek trailhead is approximately 2 miles up the Perseverance Trail which begins at the end of Basin Road in Last Chance Basin.
Kodachrome 64 Slide by David Kent, Sometime Between
10:50 and 11:15 a.m ADT, Tuesday, September 11, 1984, © 2006
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Fog Over Gastineau Channel
Picture by David Kent, 8:26 a.m. ADT, July 16, 2006, © 2006
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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
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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 Lake (only a small portion showing), Auke Bay, Coghlan Island, and Portland Island, Stephens Passage is the main body of water seen, Admiralty Island runs across the top with it’s mountains in the clouds – a tiny portion of Lynn Canal and Icy Strait with Chichagof Island visible on the far side, 33 miles from the camera, can be seen over the saddle between Admiralty Island’s Mansfield Peninsula at the right edge of the picture and the main mass of Admiralty. Continuing counter-clockwise: The northwest end of 17 mile long Douglas Island is at the upper left corner with Fritz Cove between it and the end of the Mendenhall Peninsula, next comes the Juneau International Airport Runway and then the SW end of Thunder Mountain/Heintzleman Ridge. The East Mendenhall Valley, which is where a large part of Juneau’s population lives, is the developed area visible in the central portion of the picture. Mendenhall Loop Road is the main arterial seen and becomes Glacier Spur Road where it then enters the Recreation Area.
Picture by David Kent, 10:50 a.m. ADT, September 27, 2005, © 2006
