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He traveled to Alaska to prove it. Here, glaciers were still carving the land—they had never finished melting at the end of the last glacial period—and Muir could see shapes like those at Yosemite in the act of being created. Glacier Bay, which Muir “discovered” when guided there by his Alaska Native friends, was a glacial work in progress, as it still is today. When you visit, you can see for yourself how the heavy blue ice and white snow are streaked with black rock and dust that were obviously gouged from mountains and left at the faces and along the flanks of the glaciers in debris piles called moraines.

For the first time in months, you can see the stars. It comes as a shock the first time you have to use your car headlights. The mood gets even more frantic. There’s never enough time in the summer to do everything that needs to get done. Construction crews can count the days now until snow and cold will shut them down. Anything that’s not done now won’t be done until next May. Labor Day approaches as fast as 5pm on a busy business day. As September turns to October, the last tourists are gone and T-shirt shops are closed for the season.

The rivers of the great coastal forests bring home runs of big salmon, clogging in spawning season like a busy sidewalk at rush hour. The fish spawn only once, returning by a precisely tuned sense of smell to the streams where they were hatched from 2 to 5 years before. When the fertilized eggs have been left in the stream gravel, the fish conveniently die on the beach, making a smorgasbord Natural History: Rough Drafts & Erasures Rainforest 2 ALASKA IN DEPTH prehistoric mastodons, still intact, has been unearthed from the frozen ground.

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