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Eskimo and Indian People from the lower forty-eight, like me, may not be aware of the many different Native tribes and languages of the arctic region. I believe that we are negligent when we lump all the people together under one or two words like "Eskimo or Indian". According to the graphic below

The salmon that return to spawn up the West coast rivers each year are the life's blood of plants and animals far inland. The fish strain and push their dying bodies up-river to lay their eggs. The salmon encounter many gauntlets that pose a threat to their successful reproduction including

Worthington Glacier The road to Valdez, (a port town with a name famous for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill) passes through some spectacular glacial scenes. The Worthington Glacier sits atop the mountain pass and serves as another warning sign that we are warming our planet rather too quickly for our

The Copper River Wide, silty and braided, the Copper River was named for the ore that was pulled out and hauled down the mountains around the turn of the 19th century. Today, the river is mostly used for recreational fishing - some of the regions best salmon is harvested from here. The river is

A Way in to Alaska's Wilderness The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park can only be accessed by road in two places, the Nabesna road and the McCarthy road. Both are gravel roads and require patience and a bit of time to travel down. The roads are therefore not heavily visited by tourists and afford

Tetlin Wildlife Refuge Nestled on the Northern edge of Kluane, just across the border in Alaska, is a vaste landscape remarkable for its bogs, lakes and streams. This land is an important flyway for migratory birds and home to many species of amphibians, mammals, butterflies, mushrooms and, of

The Land Heals Amber, the Parks Interpreter, taught us about the many plants that the People have used to help heal the human body. Some of these plants she discussed are familiar to me as they are the same as ones used by Native People in the southwest, and some I recognize as herbals found in

Amber Amber Berard-Althouse, a young Parks Canada Interpreter for Kluane National Park, gave an evening fire-side talk to share her story about coming back to her land. Amber's lineage is part Southern Totchone and part Tlingit. She returned to Haines Junction, the small village outside of the