Kayaker's Cove, Resurrection Bay, Seward, Alaska
 September 2007 — Meg is about to go back to school while continuing to work. We are beginning a home remodeling project. My mother is visiting in two weeks to discuss wedding plans. The only sane thing to do is get the heck out of Dodge and go kayaking in Alaska’s Resurrection Bay. Harbor seals, sea otters, ocean, mountains, a (fictional) life and death struggle with a black bear, and the Yahtzee world championship await — just a few of the benefits of enjoying sustainable tourism Alaska-style.
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Kesugi Ridge, Denali State Park, Alaska
 July 2007 — Yesterday we were three hours past our agreed upon departure time and Meg was still trying to stuff fresh fruit into the extremely space-limited bear-proof food container. I watched in arm-crossed exasperation — "Who takes cherries and bananas backpacking? We’ll eat power bars.” Neither of us was cheerful, and I wondered if we should have done a “test” backpacking trip before we got engaged last month.
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 Jim Adams was raised in Iowa and headed to the east coast for college and graduate school. He then reversed directions and headed west. For the last fourteen years he has worked for National Wildlife Federation in Alaska, first as an attorney and now as director of the Alaska office. He and his dog Milo, a four-year-old lab/border collie, spend as much time outdoors as they can.
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Alaska Facts:
- Known as the Great Land, Alaska is the largest state in the union (570,373.6 sq mi), more than twice the size of Texas with only 1/33 its population — 1/5 the size of the contiguous 48
- 80% of U.S. National Wildlife Refuge land — 76 million acres — is in Alaska
- 64% of the nation’s National Park land — 54 million acres — is in Alaska
- The nation’s 2 largest National Forests are in Alaska
- 6-7,000 wolves roam Alaska, as do 98% of the U.S. brown bears (grizzlies)
- Alaska has nearly 2/3 of the nation's wetlands
- 4 major flyways converge in Alaska and 10 million ducks, 750,000 geese, and 80,000 swans nest here
- 12 species of waterfowl nest nowhere else in America
- 80% of the world's trumpeter swans and 50% of the world's tundra swans nest in Alaska’s wetlands
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CONTACT US:
Alaska Regional Center
750 West 2nd Ave, Suite 200
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: 907-339-3900
Fax: 907-339-3980
http://online.nwf.org/alaska
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JIM'S ALASKA TRAVELS
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