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Accumulated fragments: The Bear Man of Admiralty Island: Part 4

...hundreds of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) recruits were busy building tourist facilities up at the lakes. Cabins, camp sites, and a large tourist lodge were built along Lake Alexander by 1937.Hasselborg had gone back to trapping and hunting...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2013-03-03/accumulated-fragments-bear-man-admi
Neighbors
Winter is tough on Juneau's homeless

...fire. How does she beat the cold?"Blankets, layers and body heat," Shenefield said.Now that they've left their camp site Shenefield said they are still unsure what they'll do next. During the interview Shenefield and Hercules were staying...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-12-30/winter-tough-juneaus-homeless
Local
Expedition India

...able to signal the first group with our head lamps and they came down to help us with the last bit of climbing to our camp site.I think the most memorable and most valuable experiences I had on the trip were the hardest ones. They were the ones...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-10-05/expedition-india
Outdoors
State Parks to host National Trails Day event at Denali State Park

ANCHORAGE - Trail enthusiasts are invited to meet at the group camp site next to Byers Lake in Denali State Park for a day of fun and volunteer work with staff from the Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2011-06-02/state-parks-host-national-trails-day
Outdoors
Rains flood Mendenhall Lake

...Hydrometeorological Technician Geri Swanson said the road at the lake at Skater's Cabin was closed off and the lower camp sites had all flooded.She added the airport has received 2.58 inches over the weekend in to Monday."All this flooding...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-08-22/rains-flood-mendenhall-lake
Local
Kodiak's community archaeology project answers millennia-old questions while raising others

...without time to do a thorough excavation of that structure, it was reburied.And then there are signs that the hunting camp site is associated with older settlements from thousands of years earlier - but those signs have been obscured by later activity...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2011-09-18/kodiaks-community-archaeology-project-a
State
A campsite of one's own

...it would be nice as well." Layton is improving the sites for long-term guests by installing a pair of posts at each camp site, on which a tent fly or tarp for a roof can be hung. He's also laying down shipping palettes to keep tent floors off...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071701/Loc_campsite.shtml
Local
Scout camp gets major upgrade

...law. "One campsite is now designated and designed specifically for special-needs kids," Crismore said. The new camp site is completely wheelchair accessible. It was designed with input from the local troops who have special-needs Scouts...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071806/sta_20060718008.shtml
News
Timely timber sale

...the Couverden area. This is an area that has a lot of infrastructure in place - roads, a barge-loading facility and camp site. This provides a great opportunity for the Forest Service to advertise an economic timber sale, much needed by the timber...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082902/let_letter2.shtml
Opinion
Where a logging ban and local hopes collide

...could be developed for recreation. It will still be beautiful, but tamed. There will be picnic tables, rest rooms and camp sites. "I think it is a dandy opportunity," said Cliff Skillings, spokesman for Gateway Forest Products and president...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090901/Ins_insideloggingban.shtml
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