Warming winters with ice retreating makes one think about Mitchner's 'Alaska' and things of the past. When sabir tooth tigers and woolly mammoths ranged free and only one species of brown bear had migrated to S.E. Alaska. The loss of glacier coverage makes one yearn for better days perhaps on another world cold from a good climate rather than human character.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arctic-sea-ice-hits-new-january-low/
Would Tlingits of the era before the village of Hoonah (north wind) existed have recognized the place the way the Tsongass forest is today, or even James Muir?
image credit: Cryosphere Today
image credit; Gary C. Gibson Mendenhall Glacier 2013
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arctic-sea-ice-hits-new-january-low/
Would Tlingits of the era before the village of Hoonah (north wind) existed have recognized the place the way the Tsongass forest is today, or even James Muir?
image credit: Cryosphere Today
image credit; Gary C. Gibson Mendenhall Glacier 2013
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