Herp Inventory of Fort Richardson Military Base (DUW)

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corey.raimond
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Herp Inventory of Fort Richardson Military Base (DUW)

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Wood frog- Rana sylvatica
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Wood frog- Rana sylvatica
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Wood frog- Rana sylvatica- metamorph missing hind limb
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Wood frog- Rana sylvatica
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Wood frog- Rana sylvatica- unusual color pattern
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IN ALASKA! I forgot to mention all the other stuff to see besides the amazing diversity of herps in the title!


Red-necked grebe eating fish
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Dipnetting
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Greater scaups
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Arctic tern egg
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Arctic tern
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Mew Gull
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Horned grebe
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Moose scares family riding bikes
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More moose
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Typical scenery
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Moose will show up anywhere and everywhere and refuse to get out of your way!

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Spruce Grouse
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Jellyfish
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Stellar's Sea Lion eating discarded Halibut remains
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Seward, AK

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Porcupine
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Sea Otters
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Fighting
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Glacier
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This photo was in june, not even very high elevation...brrr
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Red fox with meal
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We work hard out in the field!
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More moose?
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Anchorage from the mountains
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Common goldeneye with young
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English sundew- carnivorous plant
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Serenity falls
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We work at the base, and often see soldiers parachuting out of these planes
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A young black bear
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Fuze rocket dummy
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Aleutian mountainheath
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Pretty badass ropebridge
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Don't fall!
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Some Denali action

Scamann's spring beauty
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Gray wolf
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Arctic ground squirrel
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Scenery + rainbow
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First views of the mountain
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The mosquitoes were thick, they have been known to literally kill caribou just by sheer numbers
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Denali- the beast of a mountain
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Solstice at Denali means less than 2 hours of "darkness" more like twighlight
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Oh yeah, I almost got attacked by a bear...

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-Corey
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wayne_fidler
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sweet post I often ponder going to alsaka that odd colored wood frog was cool looking anymore pics of it?
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Even the "normal" wood frog pics were cool... Thanks for sharing, the scenery and animals are amazing.
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Wow Corey that was a great post. What wildlife didnt you get to photograph?

Duane
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Great shots. I especially like the Scaup pair...superb image! :thumb:

...no way would I get on that bridge. Did you cross it?
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I was thinking the same thing about the wood frogs. They have some neat spotting and stuff. And that anery looking frog is awesome! Cool pics of everything else as well.
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Really nice post. I was up in AK in 2006 - we were nuts and went all the way to deadhorse on a whim in our rental car :beer: . The highlight of our trip were some arctic foxes about 10 miles south of the arctic ocean. I've been dying to get back up there. Hopefully next year.

I don't mean to hijack, but here's a couple photos of the fox family

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Pups

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Thanks for sharing!
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that shot of that sundew (Drosera angilca) is great. I just love drosera species....
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Your lack of herps is more than made up for by the abundance and quality of other wildlife. How long did it take to gather all of these photos? Was that one weekend, several months, or several years?

Very enjoyable!

Dan
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Ugh. I don't know why you chose to include an ugly airplane in that post, but the rest was good;) Were the sylvatica fairly widespread, or were they limited to a narrow habitat range? No wolverine photos?

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that bear at the end almost looks like it was a polar bear what was it? grizzly?
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Post by corey.raimond »

Thanks everyone.

I don't have any more photos of the strange looking wood frog, it was pouring outside and I was supposed to be working.

I didn't cross that bridge, but only because one of the supports was tied to a dead tree, so it didn't seem stable.

Cool fox photos! I would love to make it up to the north slope!

I accumulated these photos over two months. Almost all of them in Anchorage, except for a one day visit to Denali NP and a one day trip to Seward. I work outside everyday so we get to see some cool stuff.

John- I'm pretty sure they made the soldiers go across that bridge in the past (maybe it was in better shape back then?)

Wood frogs are pretty easy to find and just about anywhere near Anchorage, any habitat. Wolverines are very very hard to see in the wild. I know many avid outdoor people who have lived in Alaska their entire lives and never seen a wolverine. They are around Anchorage though, they have seen them on game cams when they bait them with carcasses.

Thanks for the replies.

-Corey
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