The Newsletter of Camp Denali
5/20: First wood frogs of the season croaking in Nugget Pond. Some years they awake two or more weeks earlier. A late spring, this one!
5/26: Subadult grizzly bear at Nugget Pond.
5/28: Female moose with a very young calf in the tundra behind Potlatch.
6/8: Ice-out on Wonder Lake!
6/11: First Arctic Warbler heard. Wood frogs now silent again for the year.
6/13: White-fronted Geese with goslings on one of the tundra kettle ponds.
6/22: American Dipper pair feeding nestlings in their mossy nest along Moose Creek.
6/29: Lone wolf observed on the Thorofare River.
7/4: Ripe blueberries near Wonder Lake.
7/8: Fungus gnat larvae in "snakeworm" formation crossing the staff trail near Potlatch.
7/12: Wolf observed in the tundra ponds, snooping around for beavers.
7/23: Our gardener, Dakotah, reports the first summer frost...wiping out the marigolds and first crop of peas.
7/27: Lone wolf observed along the Eielson Bluffs.
8/5: Young grizzly bear visits the cabins at mid-Camp.
8/19: First of the season, approximately 80 Sandhill Cranes fly over Camp Denali.
9/5: First-ever reported Brambling seen and photographed in willow-thickets near mile 81.
9/10: Guests spend an hour and a half watching a wolf chase ground squirrels in Thorofare Pass; also observe a herd of over one hundred caribou.
9/11: Thousands of Sandhill Cranes pass over Camp Denali with the mountain shining bright on a sunny, autumn day.
© Murray Cohen
