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Posted on June 29, 2021January 24, 2022

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AMC Junior Naturalist Patch award ceremony. Even though I’m not ages five through 12, I completed the activities for the junior naturalist patch with AMC @appalachianmountainclub and learned SO MUCH!!! Here I am with Galehead hut’s staff Naturalist showing off the patch. I am so glad they are encouraging good trail stewardship starting at a young age! #amc #appalachianmountainclub #hike #getoutside #galeheadhut #scienceteacher #whitemountainsnh #juniornaturalist #earthfirst The mom goat looks like she is smiling-though in reality she is probably saying go away. Check out the third photo, it’s unbelievable what sort of cliffs mountain goats can scale. I just read they can ascend something like 1500 feet in 20 minutes! The awesome metamorphic rocks of Tracy Arm fjord make a nice backdrop. I feel like this sea otter is a little bit embarrassed to be caught out of the water. So in reality it is probably just thinking go away. One of my columns made it to news alert status in my local newspaper chain!! @seacoastonline You can read it by searching for my name plus monarch butterflies. It’s about how they are endangered and the little things we can do to help. Thanks for the great picture @littleriverphotoworkshops It’s been so hot even the fungi are sweating! This is guttation-when fungi (and plants) exude beads of moisture when temperature and/or humidity are favorable. This polypore (red-belted I think) was sweating along with us on the trail up to Carter Ledge. ps. in plants this can happen at night when transpiration is shut down and pressure from the roots squeezes water out of special structures in leaf edges. The mechanism is not so well understood in fungi. You can always tell a glacier was there by the broad U-shaped valleys formed as miles of ice moved over the land. Rivers form V-shaped valleys. Other pictures show the remnants of the last glaciation that helped form these fjords, a glacial river cutting its way through rock, an Arctic tern, lots of beautiful ice, and a map. We were in Tracy Arm fjord headed to the South Sawyer Glacier in SE Alaska #sealaska #glaciers #arctictern #southsawyerglacier #getoutside #earthscienceteacher #natgeotravel #lindbladexpeditions #tracyarmfjord #southsawyerglacier #juneau #getoutside #nature

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