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Hardware Store Herald Volume 13 News from the Wrangell Mountains Center Winter 2012/13 HARDWARE STORE HERALD Volume 13 News from the Wrangell Mountains Center Winter 2012/13 The Wrangell Mountains Center fosters understanding, appreciation, and stewardship of wildlands and mountain culture in Alaska through scientific and artistic inquiry in the Wrangell Mountains. WMC & Willow Creek Watershed understand how streams, soils, springs, and Council Share Monitoring Efforts lakes—and the biota they support—are The Willow Creek Watershed evolving as climate and land-cover change. Consortium (WCWC) in Kenny Lake is The project involves collaborative getting technical assistance from the Wrangell assistance from the local National Resources Mountains Center in establishing and Conservation Service (Arlene Rosenkranz), operating a long-term monitoring program. the Kenny Lake Soil and Water Conservation Barry Hecht, WMC Science Committee District (Doug Vollman), Kenny Lake high chair, has been establishing stream gages school students, volunteers, the WMC, Wrangell Mountains Center and monitoring wells which the WCWC Copper River Watershed Project, and Board of Directors monitors on a year-round basis. WCWC, led UAF-Extension. The WMC assisted the by long-time resident and former high-school WCWC in setting up two gauging stations Guy Adema biology teacher David Wellman, is now in its and monitoring wells and the observation Sally Gibert third year of measuring watershed hydrology retrieval system, in addition to helping with Lilly Goodman-Allwright, Vice Pres. and ecology in this complex watershed, a measurement questions and data reduction. Barry Hecht microcosm of landscape types seen in the Now that the measurement network has Margot Higgins Copper River Basin. Willow Creek rises on been established, the challenge for 2013 the slopes of Stuck Mountain, flows beneath will be to better understand the sources of Howard Mozen, President the pipeline and the Richardson Highway springs which support salmon spawning in Maria Shell and Edgerton Cutoff to the Tonsina River, lower Willow Creek and then to identify how Joey Williams south of central Kenny Lake. Vegetation, to track changes in flow over the coming creek flow, and its salmon population have decades. The WCWC records, including all discernibly changed during the lifetimes monthly meeting minutes, can be found at of older residents. The project aims to make WillowCreekWater.org. ∞ straightforward and careful measurements which can be repeated within the next 50 years to allow residents to measure and Porphyry Place Expansion Underway By Jeremy Pataky The WMC concluded our capital Contents campaign successfully last winter with the Andy Aschwanden Monitoring 1 Porphyry update 1 purchase of the Ed LaChapelle and Meg Hunt property adjacent to our Old Hardware Store Director’s Note 2 headquarters. While focusing on planned repairs and renovations for this first year, we were Program Report 3 Glaciology School 4 able to use some of the space for limited programing already this summer. Alum Returns 5 Bear Education 6 We started moving in right away, and held a volunteer work party and a yard sale Pick.Click.Give. 6 at Porphyry Place during Memorial Day Weekend. The 2nd International Summer School Field Sketching 6 Swallow Monitoring 7 in Glaciology used the main cabin as their lecture hall and the Hardware Store for meals Artist Residency 7 Research 8 and projects, a large-program test-drive that worked very well. We also employed the main AWS 30th Year 9 building for a couple Summer Arts and Lectures Series events (the first one, Bob Anderson’s WMC Archives 9 Thanks 10 talk on local glaciers, drew over 120 people) and a Solar Power and Battery Maintenance Porphyry continues on page 9 3 like it exists, but would never want to actually live in it. Director’s “Exactly whatNote is the Wrangell it means to call McCarthy home in an era What does Weeden mean, exactly, when he talks about Mountains Center’s vision for the future? when everything is changing around us. “habitations and inhabitants” being “spiritually as well as What is your agenda?” asked a local year- Jay Hammond was Governor of Alaska economically connected with the landscape”? Where would Weeden, from his own subjectivity, place the present-day Another Successful Year of Programs round McCarthy resident point blank one during construction of the Trans-Alaska By Eleanor Jensen Wrangell-St. Elias region and its 23 subsistence resident night last summer. He seemed wary of what Pipeline System; he oversaw the creation The 2012 season at the WMC was full and rewarding. zone communities in relation to that threshold? my answer might be. It’s no wonder that the of the Permanent Fund. Incidentally, he Both returning and inaugural programs filled up the summer Perhaps one indicator of local wildness is the fact future of the region is on people’s mind— happened to be one of the survivors of calendar and each was successful, providing mission- change is no stranger to the Wrangells, but a rafting accident on the Tana River in that nearly everyone would imagine that threshold point differently (or reject the idea outright). The Wrangells do relevant education to visitors and locals. The season started it seemed to quicken its pace over the last Wrangell-St. Elias National Park that killed with a gardening workshop taught by Robin Underwood in Nathaniel Wilder not grow a cultural monocrop and hopefully never will. My year. Just looking close to home around three people. When he came into office, he May and was followed by the 10-day International Summer the Kennicott Valley, the year brought dramatic advances invited Robert Weeden to serve as his planning director. hope for the Kennicott Valley itself is that the residents – all of them, McCarthy Area Council members, and not; School in Glaciology program, offered in partnership in telecommunications, significant improvements of the Weeden was a close friend of Dick Cooley, who helped with UAF. The 30th Alaska Wildlands Studies program McCarthy Road, and changes in management at Wrangell- found the Environmental Studies Department at UC WMC supporters, and not; seasonal residents and year- brought together a talented staff to provide a field-based St. Elias National Park. New businesses opened and a Santa Cruz in 1970, as well as the WMC’s own college field round residents – will care for those wild qualities and for curriculum to undergraduate students in the Wrangell new 5,000 foot runway appeared on the west side. A 21st course. In his book, Alaska: Promises to Keep, published in each other. In an era of change, what are these qualities of Mountains. New programs included Michelle McAfee’s century gold (or copper?) rush in the shape of new high- 1978, Weeden wrote: place that people will not abide losing? Hopefully the WMC Songwriting Workshop, the Plein Air Painting Workshop dollar jobs at Kennecott kept money flowing, and the plays a positive role in helping us individually identify what’s taught by Linda Lyons, and the Creative Cloth Workshop McCarthy Lodge stayed open late into the fall. There’s even No one can read letters to editors of Alaskan important about the place, recognizing this is the first step taught by board member Maria Shell. Each of these a local baby boom. The WMC itself took possession of newspapers, listen to the congressional debates about toward protecting our own local wildness. ∞ workshops was creatively engaging for both instructors new buildings and land while offering a widening array of new parks for Alaska, or examine Alaskan opinion and participants and produced remarkable results. Two programs. surveys without coming to the conclusion that wildness What are we up to, and how does it fit into what’s is a highly valued Alaskan asset. By “wildness” I mean other residential programs begun in 2011 were Kristin happening in the valley? I was glad this concerned citizen, a general characteristic of landscapes, complex in its Link’s Natural History Field Sketching and Journaling neighbor, and resident initiated a conversation, something derivation but easily recognized once experienced, Workshop and the Wrangell Mountains Poetry Workshop, that doesn’t happen enough in a place where impressions which can pervade and dominate sparsely inhabited as taught by Dan Beachy-Quick. These workshops continued and assumptions can last for decades. well as unsettled places. I do not mean only Wilderness, this year to provide a stimulating and thoughtful space for Organizational development and strategic thinking a very specific statutory land designation designed to participating artists and writers. about how we will continue meeting our mission are topics describe the commercially forgotten nooks and crannies The WMC organized another year of Summer at the forefront of many current conversations. One of the of long-settled states. Scattered cabins and villages do Arts and Lectures Series (SALS) events, Mountain Arts for best exemplars of WMC values is our college program, now not mar wild country in the Alaskan context as long as Youth (MAY) activities, and nature walks this past season. going into its 31st year, which inspires us to do what we can the habitations and inhabitants are spiritually as well as The SALS offered a full line-up of diverse presentations to sustain those wild qualities of the region that gave rise to economically connected with the landscape. Commercial and events. Some highlights included: the “Historical that program in the first place, and to keep it alive and well and even industrial activities can sometimes be carried and Current Perspectives on Wrangell-St. Elias National alongside our younger programs, too. out without grossly assaulting wildness, though at some Park & Preserve” panel discussion; presentations by The mountains of Wrangell-St. Elias are among the threshold point (admittedly a subjective one) the palpable Pataky Jeremy Anchorage Museum curator Julie Decker, fire ecologist best places on earth to learn about change and instability disruptions of air clarity, water purity, soil stability, Jennifer Barnes, artist and Governor’s Award for the Arts in conditions far from equilibrium.
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