Publications by Eric Niewoehner
Alaska has a short summer. But the display of nature’s beauty is unmatched. In constructing this page, I had to officially change the titles of some of the Alaskan Chronicles to designate “Southeast Alaska.” Alaska is a big place. And I mean really big. So for me to chronicle wildflowers, birds or animals of “Alaska”…
This is my journal of animals I encountered in Alaska. Most of these sightings were while walking through the wilderness, but some of the photos will demonstrate how the wilderness came to our front porch. Black Bear Ursus americanus Can’t have a web page for Alaskan animals without something about bears. I think my understanding…
What a truck has to say about the place and the person who drives it When living in Columbia, Missouri, I observed that there were two types of truck owners. The suburbanites who, for some odd reason, had to drive a truck. Then there were the people who made their living using the truck as…
Several years ago I fell off the deep end and picked up bird watching as a hobby. While I was always interested in birds, I often stereotyped bird enthusiasts as nerdy, walking down trails with binoculars around their neck, some bedecked with $2,000 cameras with lenses so big a person could barely balance them (thus…
Juneau is simply an amazing place to live. 877 miles north of Seattle, 590 miles from Anchorage, it is a long way from just about everything. And yes, as everyone seems to wonder, it is another 553 miles to Arctic Circle. You can only get here if you fly or come by boat. Our road…