Can't argue with that, Ebbie. It's just that I got busted by a federal ranger in Juneau, for pitching my tent 20 yards the wrong side of an invisible line in the woods! (In March, for God's sake - I was the only person for miles around.)

How often do you get a bear in the main street by the way? I didn't see any of those things you mentioned in the Juneau area, but I saw a sow bear with cub scoffing a dead moose beside a lake (Mirror Lake?) near Kantishna; ptarmigan and porcupine by the dozen,caribou, wolves (at Beever Creek) and much else. You didn't mention eagles - I saw eagles (3,000 pairs of them, I was told) near Haynes, packed along the tree branches like sparrows. That was one of the most memorable sights ever. If the salmon are in decline, that'll hit the eagles too - and maybe the bears.

You wouldn't believe the hostility to Juneau in the rest of Alaska - they just don't know what Juneau did to get all those jobs that go with the state legislature. Do you know (of) a woman in Juneau called Sheila Nickerson? She wrote a great book.