The Raven

The mission of Juneau Audubon Society is to conserve the natural ecosystems of Southeast
Alaska, focusing on birds, other wildlife and their habitats for the benefit and enjoyment of
current and future generations.

Volume 29, Number 9 Juneau Audubon Society May 2003

May Monthly Meeting

Thursday, May 8, 7:30 p.m.
Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School Library
Almanac
Bicycle Touring in Chile and Argentina: Top to Bottom
Arctic Terns arrive from Mike Blackwell
Antarctica
F or the past 15 years, Mike Blackwell, Jim Johnson, and some others have
been on a discontinuous, segmented, bicycle tour of the world. In this
slide show, Mike and Jim report on their amusing 5000-km excursion from
One to two eaglets hatch
late May/early June Arica, Chile, on the Peruvian border, to Ushuaia de Argentina, at the end of
the road in Tierra del Fuego.

Sandhill Cranes pass by

Gustavus, Wrangell,
Petersburg en route to Celebrate International Migratory Bird Day 2003
western & northern
Alaska
I nternational Migratory Bird Day (IMBD), held the second Saturday in May,
celebrates an important and spectacular event in the life of a migratory bird—
its journey between its summer and winter homes.
Moose calves are born
mid-May to early June Here are two great ways to celebrate in Juneau.

On Saturday, May 10, take a bird walk on the Mendenhall Wetlands with Bob
Armstrong, author of numerous bird and nature guides for Alaska and an
o Wolf pups accomplished photographer. For details, see our bird walk schedule on page 4.
are born
May/early On Thursday, May 15, attend a program at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor
June Center Theater from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Gwen Baluss of the U.S. Forest Service
will give a presentation about banding neotropical migrants in Alaska and
Mexico. There will be a concurrent hour-long program for children in another
room at the visitor center beginning at 6:30 p.m. with Kristen Romanoff from
May 10 is International Alaska Department of Fish & Game. Further information is available from
Migratory Bird Day Gwen or from Michelle Kissling with U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

Like any day of recognition, IMBD exists to focus attention on a valuable

Mountain goat kids are resource —the nearly 350 species of migratory birds that travel between nesting
born late May/early June habitats in North America and non-breeding grounds in South and Central
America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the southern U.S. Migratory birds are
some of the most beautiful, observable, and remarkable wildlife that share our
world. In Juneau, this includes all of our warblers, many ducks, flycatchers, and
our hummingbirds. (continued on page 2)
 A message from the board
Brenda Wright, president

T
he Juneau Audubon Society board met on April 15, 2003. We have several projects that are in progress, including a
donation of some fabulous mountain goat photographs to be hung in the visitor’s center and near the cruise ship
information kiosk, and updates on the golf course issues (courtesy of Matt Kirchhoff and Sue Schrader). We also
discussed our use of chapter funds for our Raven newsletter and one of our major fundraisers, the Berners Bay cruises. If
you were not on the April cruise, please consider taking the May 3, 2003 cruise! (Ed. note: the morning cruise is already
sold out, but space may still be available on the afternoon sailing.)

The board decided to continue supporting the bi-monthly contribution to the Southeast Wild column in the Juneau Empire.
Please let us know if you would like to contribute an article, or know someone who has a birding or natural history story to
share.

We are hoping to promote a Bird-a-thon to raise interest in fall migrations in the Juneau area. Fall is a time of sometimes
unreasonable weather, but also a time of interesting birding in our area. Let’s start a new tradition of bird walks and
awareness as our daylight length shortens and our migrants pass through town with the last of the cruise ship passengers.

We are always on the lookout for interested volunteers to support our committees and board. Please contact any member
of the board with suggestions or offers of time.

Y our berry-picking hands. Homemade jams and jellies are the highlight of
Your Hands

Juneau Audubon’s booth at the annual Juneau Public Market on Thanksgiving

Wanted:

weekend. And they are a major fund-raiser for our chapter. As you are picking
berries this summer, please consider picking a bucket or two to donate to this cause.
You can contact Mary Lou King at kingfarm@ptialaska.net to contribute. Many hands
will help insure this holiday tradition continues.

International Migratory Bird Day 2003

(continued from page 1)
Our migratory birds need habitat available in both their winter and summer habitats. The International Migratory Bird
Day hopes to emphasize our appreciation of our migratory species and lead to increased protection for their habitat needs.
Here are other suggestions for enjoying our migratory birds:
• Take notice of the birds around you
• Point out these birds to someone else
• Create or improve habitat at your home
• Keep your cat indoors—it helps both cat and birds!
• Donate to a wildlife preservation fund or group
• Get involved in community land-use planning
• Teach young people about migratory birds and IMBD
For further information check the official web site at http://birds.fws.gov/imbd/

September Raven Deadline

The next Raven will be published in September. Please submit articles by August 21 to raven@juneau-audubon-society.org

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 My favorite bird
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Paul Suchanek, Juneau

This article is based on an interview with one of the many experienced birders in Juneau Audubon Society. If you’d like to be
interviewed about one of your favorite birds, please contact Marge Hermans at marjorie.hermans@acsalaska.net

A Ruby-crowned Kinglet was one of the first birds I saw that got me
interested in birds in general.

I was in junior high or high school and was walking through the woods on the
farm where we lived in southern Minnesota. I knew what Ruby-crowned
Kinglets were, and I saw them in the bushes right next to me. Normally you
can’t see the red crown, but this bird was flashing its crown of red feathers. It
was really close—only a few feet away—and I could see it without binoculars.
It was really spectacular.

Bob Armstrong
Also, one of the first bird songs I learned was the Ruby-crowned Kinglet’s,
and that got me going with birding by ear. It’s a really strong song for such a
small bird, and we hear it a lot around Juneau in the spring. It usually starts
with a few chittering notes, then shifts to something like “Pretty-pretty-pretty-
pretty me!” It’s very ringing, easily heard, and we assume the birds are singing
to establish their territories.

Except for hummingbirds, kinglets are about the smallest birds in this area. They’re only about 4 inches long from the tip
of the bill to the tip of the tail—smaller than most warblers. Kinglets flick their wings a lot (a good tip-off for
identification), and they hover as they look for small insects, or insect eggs on the undersides of leaf surfaces. They’re
pretty much little grayish, olive-green birds, but they have white wing bars, so they look pretty different from any warblers
you’d see around Juneau. Also below the bottom wing bar they have a big band of black on the wing. That’s a good field
mark to distinguish a kinglet from a warbler.

Golden-crowned Kinglets are generally found in spruce trees, often really high up, and they tend to move in flocks. Their
bellies look pretty white, and the birds have a broad white stripe over the eye. Ruby-crowned Kinglets are typically found
in deciduous brush and trees, and they often forage fairly low to the ground. They are a little more light olive green color,
and they have no white stripe but a white eye ring.

Ruby-crowned Kinglets breed in Southeast’s spruce forests, and one interesting thing is that their average clutch size is the
highest of any songbird. They often have 7 eggs, and sometimes up to 12. They’re pretty secretive. I’ve never personally
seen a nest, and was just reading in an article that their nests can be up to 90 feet high in a spruce or hemlock.

Ruby-crowned Kinglets are one of the first passerine migrants to show up in Juneau. We usually see them in late March.
When the migrants move out in fall, you’ll see Ruby-crowned Kinglets moving south even into November. Occasionally
one is seen on the Christmas Bird Count, but that’s pretty rare.

You can also enjoy kinglets because they’re such a common bird. You’ll see them almost anywhere you go in the U.S. You
realize a lot of these birds nest pretty much in the north, then you see them in the southern U.S. in the winter. Seeing a
familiar bird like that links the two areas together.

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 Spring Migration Bird
Golf Course Trips
Sue Schroeder

W alks last about two hours. Bring binoculars and/or spotting scope, bird guide, rubber boots, and dress for
weather. Please watch local media or our web site at http://www.juneau-audubon-society.org for possible
schedule changes.

Saturday Berners Bay cruises Saturday Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge
May 3 Depart Auke Bay Boat Harbor May 24 Meet at parking lot at end of Radcliffe Rd.
8:30 & 1:30 Members will be on board as interpreters. 8 a.m. Leader: Steve Zimmerman

Sunday Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge Saturday Sandy Beach, Douglas
May 4 Meet at parking lot at end of Radcliffe Rd May 31 Meet at parking lot by picnic shelter
8 a.m. Leader: Deborah Rudis 8 a.m. Leader: Paul Suchanek

Saturday International Migratory Bird Day Saturday Dredge Lakes

May 10 Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge June 7 Meet at parking lot by Mendenhall River
8 a.m. Meet at parking lot at end of Radcliffe Rd 7:30 a.m. bridge on Back Loop Road.
Leader: Bob Armstrong Leader: Deanna MacPhail

Saturday Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge

May 17 Meet at parking lot at end of Radcliffe Rd.
8 a.m. Leader: Bev Agler

Bird Walk Field Notes Berners Bay Field Notes - April 19

Paul Suchanek Deanna MacPhail

A bout 15 birders met out at Eagle Beach on the

morning of Saturday, April 12 to work on their gull
identification skills. Although the tide stage was higher
T he trip was an all-around success: calm seas, a sell-out
crowd and extraordinary activity in Berners Bay. The
eulachon were in the bay and just beginning to move up the
than expected, it was a beautiful calm morning with rivers. Several pods of Steller Sea lions (Paul Suchanek
brilliant sun. While waiting to determine tide stage and estimated 200 animals) cooperatively fed in the bay,
locations of the major gull roosts, everyone got to examine porpoised clear out of the water, and shadowed the two
the “view” from each of the wide variety of spotting scopes humpback whales that were also in the bay just a few yards
available. Gus van Vliet also entertained and informed from the boat. We cut the engine and watched the goings
all with a discussion of gull identification fundamentals. on for some minutes. I think everyone felt it was quite a
Eventually a few participants lacking boots had to retreat show. Jamie Womble delivered much interesting informa-
due to the tide stage, but most of the group moved closer to tion regarding the fish & mammals. While we were
a roost of several hundred gulls. Nice comparisons of stopped a representative from Southeast Alaska Conserva-
adult herring and Thayer’s gulls were made and also the tion Council (SEACC) gave a brief, non-inciteful summary
class was able to study several age classes of mew gulls. of the Kensington Mine plans and possible access road
A few Bonaparte’s gulls and glaucous-winged gulls were activity. He said that if anyone had questions, they should
also present for comparison. In total, several hours were contact him or check their web site, http://www.seacc.org/.
spent examining the gull flock present which constantly
changed as gulls moved in or departed. Although no real We saw and think we identified 24 species of birds; not
rarities were spotted, it turned out to be an excellent day great but not too shabby. Nothing unexpected in the types
for birding as well as for enjoying the beautiful day. of birds; I think the favorite may have been the two Black
Oyster-catchers on Sentinel Island.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Permits
Juneau Chapter of the Audubon Society publishes these permit notices as a service to its members and encourages participation in
the public review process. For more information on individual permits or comments call 1-800-478-2712 (Anchorage permits
office). For possible permit violations in Southeast Alaska, call the Juneau office at 790-4490. Send your comments to: Regulatory
Branch (1145b), P.O. Box 898, Anchorage, AK 99506-0898. Note: The COE permits can now be found on line at http://
www.poa.usace.army.mil/reg/

Even if the comment date has passed, you can still send your comments to the Division of Governmental Coordination. The
State review period on 404 permits usually ends after the COE comment period closes (as a general rule you can add four days to
the comment period). It is important that your concerns reference the Coastal Zone Management program (Section 307 (c)(3) of
the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972) and the State Coastal management program (Alaska Statute Title 46). You may also
comment on the State’s Water Quality Certification (Section 401 of the Clean Water Act). Consistency guidelines for the Alaska
Coastal Management Program (ACMP) on natural resources and habitats can be found in 6 AAC 80.040 to 6 AAC 80.120 and
Water Quality standards can be found in 18 AAC 70. Please contact the Division of Governmental Coordination or the
Department of Environmental Conservation for more information about applicable laws and project comment deadlines.

Division of Governmental Coordination Department of Environmental Conservation

P.O. Box 110030 410 Willoughby Ave.
Juneau, AK 99811-0300 Juneau, AK 99801-1795
(907) 465-3562 (907) 465-5260

For additional information on regulations and guidelines for fill and dredge activity in marine waters and wetlands see the
following: Section 10 of Rivers and Harbors Act 1899 (33 U.S.C. 403) - Placement of structures in waters of the United States;
Section 404 and 404 (b) of the Clean Water Act (40 CFR 230) - Discharge of fill or dredged material into the waters of the United
States; Section 103 Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. 1413) - Transport of dredge material for
the purpose of dumping in marine waters. If you need help on commenting or technical assistance, you can call Chris Kent at
463-3494.

Point Lions — Point Lions River 1, (Reference Number 4- Purpose: To construct a 9-hole golf course. Additional
2003-0145) Applicant: Native Village of Port Lions. Location: information: On April 5, 2002, the Alaska District Corps of
Port Lions on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Proposal: The applicant Engineers published a Public Notice, CEPOA-CO Number 4-
proposes to discharge 6,300 cubic feet of fill into 1.03 acres of 1996-0320, Chilkat River 18, for the placement of fill within an
wetlands. Purpose: To create a building pad for a 13,250 foot approximate 5.5 acre emergent wetland area for the
Cultural Center and parking lot. Mitigation: None. construction of this project. The application was withdrawn by
Comments due: April 18, 2003. the applicant pending a final design. The current proposal has
been modified to include mechanized land clearing within an
Haines — Chilkat River 18, (Reference Number 4-1996- additional approximate 3.97 acres of emergent wetland area for
0320) Applicant: Stanley Jones. Location: Haines. Proposal: on-site borrow material extraction. Mitigation: As a result of
The applicant proposes the placement of approximately 23,085 pre-application coordination, and based on the fact that a
cubic yards of clean fill material within an approximate 7.34 portion of the proposed project would occur below the High
acre emergent wetland area to create: Tide Line, the applicant has incorporated the following
• Access Road: 750' x 30' (22,500 sq. ft.) management practices to reduce impacts to the aquatic
• Parking Area: 125' x 250' (30,000 sq. ft.) environment: The proposed borrow areas will be a minimum of
• Maintenance Pad: 80' x 100' (8,000 sq. ft.) 5' from the anadromous tributaries of the Chilkat River in order
• Club House Pad: 70' x 70' (4,900 sq. ft.) to retain the naturally vegetated buffers to the streams. In
• Construction Road including 15 bridge abutments: 7,000' x addition a narrow 2-3' wide channel will be excavated from
15' (105,000 sq. ft.) within each buffer zone, to no lower than the ordinary water
• Driving Range Access Road: 450' x 8' (3,600 sq. ft.) level of the stream at low tide, to prevent fish from being
trapped within the excavated areas at low tidal elevations.
• Driving Range Pad: 135' x 20' (2,700 sq. ft.)
Comments due: April 7, 2003
• Equipment Pad at Driving Range: 30' x 40' (1,200 sq. ft.)
• Greens: (see detail drawings): (133,480 sq. ft.) Juneau — Montana Creek 24, (Reference Number 0-2002-
• Tees: twenty seven @ 20' x 20' (10,800 sq. ft.) 0326) Applicant: Ambre Willis. Location: 4944 Wren Drive,
TOTAL WETLAND FILL AREA: 319,815 square feet (7.34 on Lot 1, Block F McGinnis 5B Subdivision. Proposal: The
acres) applicant proposes to discharge fill into .188 acres of Class A
wetlands and pond to create an upland area to construct a

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garage and office and to remove an open water area. The COE drainage system. Mitigation: None. Comments due by April
issued permit number 4-2002-0326 (Montana Creek 24) 28, 2003.
authorizing the placement of fill into .16 acres of Categorized
Wetland “A” to construct a single –family residence. The Juneau — Gastineau 488, (Reference Number 4-1992-0223)
permit was modified on October 23, 2002 with no fill footprint AFTER THE FACT Applicant: Marciano Duran. Location:
increase. Mitigation: None. Comments due by May 1, 2003. 1568 Glacier Highway. Proposal: After-the-fact permitting of
mechanical land clearing within an approximate 138,831
Juneau — Amalga Harbor 2, (Reference Number 2-2001- square foot forested wetland area; the discharge of
0637) Applicant: City and Borough of Juneau. Location: approximately 20,700 cubic yards of clean fill material for the
Amalga Harbor. Proposal: The applicant proposes to dredge construction of house pads, driveways and yard areas; and the
12,000 cubic yards of material from a 2 acre area below mean discharge of approximately 400 cubic yards of clean fill
high tide line within Amalga Harbor. The material will be material to relocate two approximate 150' long by 8' drainage
barged to Lynn Canal and discharged. Another 15,248 cubic channels. (Total wetland impact 3.2 acres). Additional
yards of clean fill will be discharged into 1.52 acres of scrub information: The entire lot has been mechanically cleared.
shrub and forested wetlands for the construction of a 210-foot The applicant is proposing to fill all the wetlands on this parcel
wide by 210-foot long parking lot, a 70-foot wide by 190-foot in order to provide the future lot owners with yard and storage
long small boaters parking lot and a 25-foot wide by 200-foot areas and to landscape for drainage on the moderately steep
long addition to the main parking lot. Additional fill will be slope. Purpose: The purpose of the project is the construction
placed in the intertidal zone for create a 16-foot wide by 185- of a 26-lot subdivision. Mitigation: None. Comments due by
foot long concrete beach access ramp. Purpose: To improve May 7, 2003
Amalga boat access and traffic flow. Mitigation: None.
Comments due by April 30, 2003. Sitka — Chatham Strait 80, (Reference Number 0-1976-
0098) Applicant: Alaska Department of Fish and Game..
Juneau — Gastineau Channel 350, (Reference Number 2- Location: Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture
2002-0671) Applicant: Salmon Creek Development Company. Association, 1308 Sawmill Creek Road. Proposal: To perform
Location: 3139 Channel Drive (next to the freight yard). upgrades and construct new features to the existing facility.
Proposal: The applicant proposes to discharge 1,050 cubic The proposed work consists of the following:
yards of fill material into 4,500-square feet (0.10 acre) of 1. Raise the lagoon dike from 10 foot from mean low low
intertidal habitat for the creation of a oil and water water (MLLW) to 11 foot above MLLW by adding
separator. Additional information: Department of the Army approximately one foot of concrete. The upstream face of
Permit Number 2-1982-0204, Gastineau Channel 350, was the dike would be reinforced by adding a geotextile liner,
issued to Salmon Creek Development Company on November covered with 12" of 2"-minus gravel and capped with 12"
22, 1982, to dredge approximately 50,000-yds of marine riprap rock. The liner and riprap would be keyed into the
sediment from 2.7 acres of Gastineau Channel and place that substrate for re-enforcement. The spillway and fish access
material in 2.1 acres of the intertidal zone to construct marine point would be redesigned for easier regulation of pool
facilities. On December 4, 1984, the permit was modified to height and pool maintenance. The finished toe-to-toe area
authorizing increased quantity of dredged material to 75,000- of impact would be -0.09 acres filled with -170 cubic yards
yds and expanded the dredged area to 4.98 acres. This of rock.
modification included a permit special condition requiring a 2. Construct a 140-150 linear foot fishway that would be
confined dredge spoil disposal area. On April 15, 1985, the extend seaward of the lagoon dike. The fishway would be
permit was modified authorizing a revised confined dredge made up of 14 pools measuring 10 foot by 10 foot with an
spoil disposal plan. The permit was modified on February 12, approximately 0.65 foot rise between them for a total lift of
1986, authorizing the construction of a concrete boat launching approximately nine feet. The rock for the fishway would be
ramp, staging area, and a mooring float; removal of a barge and obtained from intertidal bobble, from blasting of intertidal
construction of two 40’X 60' docks and four timber pile bedrock and riprap from quarries in Angoon or other
dolphins. A permit modification was issued on June 16, 1986, quarries. The rock pools would be stabilized with epoxy
authorizing the construction of a concrete boat launching ramp, grout suitable for marine environments. Construction of the
staging area, and a mooring float; removal of a barge and a fishway would cover (or disturb) approximately 0.07 acres
16’X 64' steel transfer ramp with two support columns. On of intertidal substrate with approximately 75 cubic yards of
April 26, 1989, the permit was modified authorizing dredging rock (intertidal cobble and imported material).
of approximately 24,000-yds of material from Gastineau 3. Expand an existing aluminum pool and weir fishway ladder
Channel. The permit was modified on November 7, 2001, from four foot to eight foot in width replace an existing
authorizing driving 4 eighteen-inch steel vertical support piles culvert under the service road near the top of the ladder
and 4 twelve-inch batter piles to support a ramp-lifting A- with a concrete bridge.
Frame. The current proposal would include the installation of a 4. Construct new “pole” type building to serve as coho and
400-gallon capacity oil water separator and 15 linear feet of 18- Chinook incubation and house start tank round ponder
inch diameter culvert that would carry stormwater runoff the under cover. Remove two existing linear raceways and
existing ditch currently does. Purpose: To create a storm water

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 several “swede” ponds and replace with 20, 16-foot • Excavate 0.6 cubic yards of rock from 44 square feet of
diameter by 4-foot deep round ponds for initial fry rearing. a small drainage to replace an 18-inch by 26-foot long
5. Outside the chum incubation building and along the culvert. Purpose: To develop a site for a private
southeast side of the existing round pond field, replace the residence and commercial development
existing 4-foot wide by 60-foot long ponding raceways with Additional Information: This is an approximately 32.4 acre
the two large linear aluminum raceways from item #4 and site containing 2 small drainages, 1 small stream and
plumb appropriate for complex. approximately 13 acres of wetlands. The applicant purchased
6. Install a new 16 inch diameter by 960 foot long water line the site in February 1990. He subsequently logged and cleared
and intertie to serve the chinook saltwater rearing complex. approximately 20 acres. In addition he has quarried portions of
The pipeline would be buried within the existing fill the site and cut and filled approximately 4.75 acres for road
footprint to a depth of 4 feet, day lighting to Kasnyku Bay access and a residence. In September 1999 it was determined
just above the HTL and resting on the substrate until that Mr. Heaton had impacted jurisdictional wetlands and
reaching the net pens where the pipeline would raise to the streams in the process of his work without prior authorization.
water surface. A Notice of violation was issued. In November 2001, due in
Purpose: To increase the coho smolt production and provide part to the age of the work and a lack comment from the state
better recruitment of adult chum salmon for the hatchery, and and Federal resource agencies during our investigation, the
maintain/update the existing facility. Mitigation: The Corps determined that impacts to waters of the United States
applicant proposes to de-water the lagoon before starting work had been minimal and the violation was closed as minor with
on the dike and would work on the fishway only during low no further enforcement action required. Mr. Heaton was
tide. All equipment would be operated from the dike or from advised that no further discharge of fill into waters of the
intertidal bedrock. Comments due by March 19, 2003. United States could occur without prior authorization. In
October 2002, Mr. Heaton contacted the Corps concerning
Ketchikan — Clover Passage 55, (Reference Number 1-2001- additional work and was advised to obtain a jurisdictional
1283) Applicant: William Moran. Location: Off North Point determination for the property, which he provided in January
Higgins Road near Ketchikan. Proposal: The applicant 2003. The Corps determined that the upper undisturbed portion
proposes to construct a 60-foot by 15-foot pile supported of the property is forested wetlands. The jurisdictional
floating dock with a 5-foot by 70-foot aluminum access ramp determination showed that small bands of created wetlands,
and a 100-foot by 8-foot aluminum pier, and five 16-inch caused by Mr. Heaton’s work and drainage patterns on the
galvanized steel pilings. Purpose: To provide moorage for a property, have become naturalized wetlands. Mr. Heaton now
recreational boat. Additional Information: On December 6, wishes to fill the created wetlands and additional portions of the
2001 a Nationwide permit 7 was issued for installation of a drainages and stream. The 22 cy of drainage and stream fill
212-feet of a 4-inch sewer line. A Nationwide permit 13 was referenced above represent the amount placed below ordinary
issued for construction of a 150-foot bank stabilization wall high water mark. The applicant’s consultant, Mr. Tim Droke,
below high tide line. Mitigation: None. Comments due by Droson Consulting, measured flows above and below the filled
May 7, 2003. portions of the drainages and stream during a 2 -day rain event
on January 26, 2003, and reported that the “French drain”
Ketchikan — Tongass Narrows 556, (Reference Number 1- system created by the boulders in the channels passed the water
2003-0271) Applicant: US Army, 7th engineer Detachment.. with no discernible flow difference in the channel above and
Location: South of Ketchikan Harbor Wreck Buoy #6. below the fill. This Public Notice covers existing impacts and
Proposal: The applicant proposes to re-float a 327-foot by 52- proposed impacts to the drainages, stream, and created
foot by 35-foot sunken World War II era Landing Ship Tank. wetlands. No work is proposed in the remaining approximately
The vessel would be towed to deeper water and re-sunk. 13 acres of undisturbed wetlands. Mitigation: None.
Purpose: To provide army training while removing a Comments due by April 10, 2003.
navigational hazard. Mitigation: None. Comments due by
April 25, 2003. Craig — Port Bagial 02, (Reference Number 4-2002-1084)
Applicant: City of Craig. Location: 5 miles southeast of Craig.
Ketchikan — Nicholas Passage 13, (Reference Number 4- Proposal: The applicant proposes to discharge 2,400 cubic
1999-1036) AFTER-THE-FACT Applicant: Harlan Heaton. yards of rock and 390 cubic yards of D-1 to create a pad for the
Location: 5 miles south of Ketchikan. Proposal: Discharge 95 expansion of the existing water treatment plant and for a future
cubic yards of rock into 0.52 acres of wetlands and streams as fish rearing facility. An additional 100 cubic yards of rock will
follows: be used in the construction of an 8-foot by 24-inch by 160-foot
• After The Fact discharge of 62 cubic yards of rock into drainage ditch. Purpose: Expansion of the existing water
0.06 acres of small drainages and one small stream. treatment plant for another treatment train and storage and the
• Discharge 22 cubic yards of rock into 0.03 acre of future use by the Prince of Wales Hatchery Association.
drainage and stream Mitigation: None. Comments due by April 30, 2003.
• Discharge 11 cubic yards of rock into 0.43 acre of
remnant and created wetlands

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Officers, Committee Chairs, Events Coordinators

President: Brenda Wright, 789-4656, president@juneau-audubon-society.org

Vice-President: Chris Kent, 463-3494, ckent@alaska.net
Secretary: Deanna MacPhail, 789-0651, bandmac@gci.net
Treasurer: Liz Blecker, 586-4210, lblecker@gci.net
Programs: Matt Kirchhoff, 586-5816, kirchhoff@gci.net
Membership: Amy Skilbred, 780-4649, skilbred@aol.com
Education: Mary Lou King, 789-7540, kingfarm@ptialaska.net
Publicity: Deborah Rudis, 789-4260, akwildlife@gci.net
Conservation: Matt Kirchhoff, 586-5816, kirchhoff@gci.net
Field Trips: Steve Zimmerman, 586-2597, stevezimmerman@gci.net
Raven Editor: Judy Shuler, 789-9544, raven@juneau-audubon-society.org
Public Market
Coordinator: Kathleen Weltzin, 789-0288, kweltzin@alaska.net

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