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Pictures of Southeast Alaska

  • Thread starter Dexenthes
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  • #61
That looks a lot like it. USDA won't display distribution maps for mosses, which makes me angry. We're trying to build up a Sphagnum collection at Meadowview. It looks like we'll be able to offer about 5 species soon.

It's possible, though I don't know probable, that you guys at Meadowview could grow these more temperate mosses... Something to look into.

Anyway, a couple pics I snapped today. Summer is definitely over. Fall is upon us.

The eye of the storm.

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Sunshine and Rain.

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  • #63
Wow awesome photography. Makes me wanna go that much more!

Cool sunshine and rain shot!
 
  • #64
I'm pretty sure this one slipped through the cracks.

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  • #65
Great photos really makes me miss hiking around in the cascades in washington when I was growing up.
 
  • #66
AMAZING! Beautiful pictures! I really liked the bog shots :]
 
  • #67
Alaska looks like that!!?!?!?!?!?!?
 
  • #68
I don't really take a whole lot of pictures in the winter but I went on a nice little hike yesterday so I snapped a few of the forest.

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Some windfall

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There's no way to really depict how large these western red cedar actually are . . .

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Probably thousands of D. rotundifolia fast asleep.

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Finally the head of Lake Perseverance

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And then I found this particularly insulting. . . this is one of the largest yellow cedar that I have seen that is accessible by road. They are the oldest lived species around here so this one is probably very old, and its very healthy too which is unique these days as this species is starting to dwindle and succumb to unknown sicknesses.

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Someone had decided to chainsaw that burl off, probably to make into a coffee table or a bowl or something... The tree will still live but that does nothing but open up a venue for rot and fungus to start slowly shortening the tree's lifespan. :cuss:

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  • #69
The snow has melted and me and my girlfriend went on a hike, took some pictures!

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Just some nicely colored Dwarf Dogwood

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A nice little sphagnum lined brook

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Large patch of lichen

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Lunch Creek

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These three were all taken on the same little tree

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The trees are pretty huge out there. . .

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Love those temperate epiphytes. . .

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Some nice red sphagnum for yall. :-D

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Sunlit canopy.

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I loved the canopy of this spruce

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It's hard to properly describe how big these cedars are

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This was the largest tree we came across, a Sitka Spruce. Please note the quarter for size reference ;)

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Some of the most sandy beaches you will find around here. . . :lol:

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Future detritus

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A shot looking up that big spruce's trunk

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Sasquatch foot print

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I love the canopy!

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Bear bread

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I hope you enjoyed these pictures. :-D
 
  • #70
The sandy beaches and sasquatch shots made me laugh. :lol:

Alaska is beautiful!
 
  • #72
It's finally spring, so I was taking a few pics.

Muscle mania

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Some interesting rock formations (or erosion)

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Blueberries are growing! :-D

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Some bones and false-lily-of-the-valley

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Not sure what's going on with this spruce. . .

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Some currants getting their groove on.

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And of course the ubiquitous skunk cabbage, signalling that spring is here.

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  • #73
Wow, it really is green!

That spruce appears to have been struck by lightning.

Nice pics!
 
  • #74
mmm looks like you got some dinner for a few days with those muscles lol, i second i tree one too but beautiful pics
 
  • #75
Wow, it really is green!

That spruce appears to have been struck by lightning.

Nice pics!

That is a thought. . . we really don't get any lightning around here, but I don't know what else would have caused it so maybe you're on to something.

mmm looks like you got some dinner for a few days with those muscles lol, i second i tree one too but beautiful pics

I wouldn't eat those muscles if I were you...

But thanks guys! :-D
 
  • #76
A giant lumberjack trying to split the tree in half!
 
  • #77
A giant lumberjack trying to split the tree in half!

:lol:

To me it kind of looked like part of the trunk just decide to give up already and fall off.
 
  • #78
if it was struck by lighting the scar would be in a lazy spiral down the trunk. kinda looks like a porcupine has moved in. awesome pics by the way
 
  • #79
It's spring time! :-D

I love the clubmosses

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Fiddle-head ferns are on their way

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Stuff is getting green

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Blueberries doing their thang

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Sporophyte generation

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Skunk cabbage is pretty much the best thing ever

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It makes our ditches look terrific

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2700 year old fish weir stakes.

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That is all. :)
 
  • #80
This is a very nice thread. 'Glad you spent some time on the skunk cabbage, Dex. It's one of my favorite species. Too bad there's no way to post the smell, ha!
 
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