American Beaver, drawn from life by John James Audubon, from The Quadrupeds of North America, Volume 1, 1851.
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It’s not all Jeeps over here, a Bronco will always turn my head. Here’s a one at Roaring Brook Falls trailhead last fall.
To get to your cabin rental in the Tongass National Forest, call Ward Air in Juneau, (907) 789-9150.
Big Shaheen Cabin, on the shore of Hasselborg Lake in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, is available to rent for a very reasonable 45 dollars a night. Getting to the cabin will take a bit of effort:
Access is by float plane or canoe with portage. It is about a 45-minute flight from Juneau. By canoe and portage, it is about 10 miles (16 km) from Mole Harbor. Occasionally poor weather can result in extended stays, and cabin users should be prepared for this. In fall, winter, and early spring, the cabin may be inaccessible due to frozen lake surface (float planes cannot land). The lake is normally ice free from mid-May through November.
There are about 150 other rustic cabins to rent in the Tongass.
Marooned in Crater Lake, by Alfred Powers, c. 1916
Young Jim Turner finds himself stranded on Crater Lake’s Wizard Island alone after he misses the last boat of the season in October 1910.
He realized he couldn’t give a signal, for he had nothing to give it with nothing that could remotely be worked into a signaling device of any kind. He would simply have to wait a week until his uncle began a search, and trust that meanwhile the Cascade storms would hold off.
Bernard Tschumi’s Alésia Museum in France is faced with wood and, like the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome, is planted with trees on top. It commemorates a battle in 52 BC between the Gauls and the victorious Romans, led by Julius Caesar.
