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Just a walk in the woods on Prince of Wales Island in S.E, Alaska. I tried something new and it didn't work perfectly. I loaded the pictures to my photobucket account and they are just a little wide for the Kos format. Not much was lost and If you click, you should get them full embigenated. Just the final one is the only one that needs a little more room. I think you could click the one and then run the entire page on photo bucket but maybe that's just me.
A nice little path through a swamp, or muskeg as it is locally known. The Forest Service had this board walk built it to improve access to a falls that Sockeye salmon migrate past.
This is a temperate rainforest, the requirements are: Not in the tropics, not in the Arctic(or Antarctic) and 100+ inches of rain annually, that last one is easy.
Along the trail I found a couch pillow of moss (actually it was more the size of a couch)
Acid tollerant cranberries and rhododendrons decorate it.
Trees seem to be getting thicker ahead, let's go look.
The soil is still fairly acid and the trees are having a hard time of it, but drainage has improved and a few hardy trees are making a go.
the mosses, they're doing just fine.
This dead tree has become a nurse log. There are lichens, mosses shrubs and a hundred or more little conifers getting started. The relatively dry feet will give the conifers a boost.
A small hillside drains well enough to get a nice little thicket growing.
This falls is what this trails was improved for, the falls were improved for the salmon migration at the same time. Easier access for the fishermen, easier access for the salmon. The Salmon seem to be losing.