GLIMPSES OF WHO WE ARE
A fine natural laboratory close at hand
It doesn't take a newcomer long to notice that red rubber boots are de rigueur on most of the hiking trails in the rainforest around Juneau. Many of the public trails in the area offer a chance to splash through ankle-deep puddles or slip around in muddy quagmires. But by July of 2009, anyone heading out for a stroll around the capital city may choose to reach for a pair of sandals, because innovative improvements to a trail along the edge of Auke Lake, on the eastern side of the University of Alaska Southeast campus, will offer a chance to not only walk or bicycle beneath the forest canopy but to take a dry-footed walk ON the water, atop a four hundred foot section of floating trail. READ MORE
