...and bolas for hunting.Heutte added, "My daughter enjoys the art projects here, and I enjoy the tie between the natural history and the culture, and it gives a sort of way to experience art and learn."After viewing the museum displays...

...photographs obtained during aerial surveys in the Gulf of Alaska and Southeast Alaska, "Coastal Impressions" presents the natural history and scenery of a remote area inaccessible to most visitors and residents. This exhibit is sponsored by the Cook...

Notable Alaska-related books published in 2012 include "The Snow Child" by Eowyn Ivey, a fiction book that garnered national attention, and "Haa Leelk'w Has Aani Saax'u / Our Grandparents' Names on the Land," an atlas of Southeast Alaska Native place names compiled over years of research and interviews with elders.The following list of books includes titles that have an Alaska connection, either through their authors or their subjects. The roundup, our third annual, is not intended to be exhaustive, and includes only those books published or reissued in 2012.

...will feature role-play games, an art project and an age-appropriate outdoor presentation by a local expert on the natural history of Southeast. Groups consist of 13 participants ages 7-9, or 10-12, with two adult naturalists. The first...

Hear the captivating call of sandhill cranes with Hank Lentfer, naturalist and writer, as he shares the natural history of the ancient-looking long-legged birds that stop off each autumn near his home in Gustavus at this week's...

...these birds on their fall migrations for two decades, since the day he hammered the last nail into his house.The natural history of cranes frame Lentfer's recently published memoir, "Faith of Cranes," which traces his journey of deepening...

...and writer Lentfer is the author of "Faith of Cranes: Finding Hope and Family in Alaska." He will speak about the natural history of these ancient-looking long-legged birds, and how his affection for them led him to the very thing he was...

The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center provides extensive information about the natural history of Juneau's most accessible glacier and the surrounding Tongass National Forest. But when it was built in the early 1960s...

...digestive products is marine in origin. Neither the bears nor the forest would be the same if salmon runs declines. The natural history and ecology of Southeast are closely tied to this link between marine, fresh-water and terrestrial systems...

...speak about tracks at Discovery Southeast we say everything leaves a sign and all signs tell a story. Stories about the natural history of our dynamic temperate rainforest reveal themselves throughout Juneau. One of the best stories I ever read was...