Barnes Lake Cabin
The place
Barnes Lake Cabin in the Tongass National Forest, Wrangell/Petersburg area (Southeast Alaska Panhandle, USA), at 19 m elevation, on the Alexander Archipelago coastline. Continuous Alaska cluster (batches 267-362). USFS Rec Cabin ($40/night via reservation.gov, one of 200+ cabins) in the Tongass temperate rainforest, 68,000 km², the largest national forest in the USA, plus the Alexander Archipelago with 1,000+ islands, plus glacial fjords, plus Ursus arctos horribilis (Kodiak brown bear, 5,000 individuals) and Ursus americanus (black bear, 30,000), plus the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, 30,000 nests/year, a US record), plus the heritage of the Tlingit people (a Na-Dene people, 15,000 strong, with an endemic Tlingit language along the NW Pacific coast; the potlatch ceremony was banned 1885-1951 in Canada and the USA under forced-assimilation missionary policy; Chief Shakes returned from Sitka in 1907; Alaska was purchased in 1867 for $7.2 million from Russia, mocked at the time as "Seward's Folly"; today it is one of the richest territorial investments in the world, with the $700 million Alaska Permanent Fund established in 1976).
The setting
Tongass NF, Wrangell/Petersburg, SE Alaska Panhandle USA, 19 m, Alexander Archipelago coastline, continuous cluster batches 267-362, USFS Rec Cabin $40/night via reservation.gov, one of 200+ cabins in the 68,000 km² Tongass, the largest in the USA, plus the Alexander Archipelago with 1,000+ islands plus glacial fjords plus Ursus arctos horribilis (Kodiak brown bear, 5,000)/americanus (black bear, 30,000) plus Haliaeetus leucocephalus with 30,000 nests, a US record. Tlingit, a Na-Dene people, 15,000 strong with an endemic Tlingit language, plus the potlatch banned 1885-1951 in Canada and the USA, plus Chief Shakes returning from Sitka in 1907, plus Alaska's 1867 purchase for $7.2 million, mocked as Seward's Folly, plus the 1976 Permanent Fund, a $700 million territorial investment.
