Thomas Bancroft
The Katmai lies west of Anchorage, across Cook Inlet. It is a rugged country with massive mountains, endless tundra plains, and numerous lakes, creeks, and rivers. In this event, travel with Naturalist Leader Thomas Bancroft to Katmai country and explore two national parks. During the presentation, Thomas will share stories from his book, Beyond the Wonder: An Ecologist’s View of Wild Alaska, and together participants will look for bears, follow sockeye on their migration, chase birds, and explore the geology of the mountains.
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, Dec 4, 2024
Time: 7-9pm
Location: The Seattle Program Center
(7700 Sand Point Way NE)
A book signing event will follow the presentation.
The Katmai area is wild and still supports all the animals present when Europeans came to North America. The vastness, the bears, the salmon, and the glaciers will leave you in awe. Throughout the event you will vicariously appreciate humbling encounters with the natural world, such as standing within a baseball throw of a feeding grizzly who doesn’t even acknowledge your existence, or flying dozens of miles down massive glaciers while reflecting on the formation of North America, the Pleistocene, and the Little Ice Age.
Although remote, this wild country faces many threats, and maintaining populations of birds, mammals, and fish isn’t guaranteed. You will leave this talk with a better sense of the country, its treasures, and a new sense of wonder for the planet we call home.
