Today there were a few folks in town from The Wilderness Society, which happens to be responsible for the funding for my collaborative position with the Sitka Conservation Society and the Forest Service. They included TWS Senior Vice President for Conservation, Amy Vedder, and I got to accompany them, along with the SCS executive director, Andrew Thoms, to fly up along the outer coast of Baranof, West Chichagof and Yakobi Islands. West Chichagof & Yakobi make up a great big Wilderness area, and getting it designated as such was the project that got SCS together as an organization in the 1960s.

It was really neat to fly over, and I’ll share more photos of it later (such as I was able to shoot through an airplane window with a little camera), but here’s Sitka from the air. If you see the red roof building in the middle, on the shore, and then a little below it a cluster of three brown roofed buildings, the smallest of the brown buildings is the Forest Service bunkhouse. As I said before, directly across the street from the beach! Tomorrow morning is the lowest tide of the month, and I’m taking the morning off to go poke some critters. Gently, of course!