The Southeast Alaska Land Trust will create new tideland maps to replace maps from the 1970s. The Southeast Alaska Land Trust will create new tideland maps to replace maps from the 1970s.
The Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge has protected Juneau’s tidelands since the late 70s. Maps from that time show an abundance of high meadows where black bears roam, marshes where waterfowl roost and seaweed beds that are home to mussels, barnacles and young fish.
This fall, a team of scientists led by the land trust and wetlands specialists from Bosworth Botanical Consulting did more than 50 drone flights and took more than 4,000 photos on the ground. They’ll pair that data with LiDAR elevation models to create digital maps of the wetlands. “The Mendenhall flats is this wildlife and fish factory that is sitting there cranking out resources without us having to do anything other than kind of leave it alone,” Robus said.
“Anyone who marches out into the flats or walks their dog on the Airport Dike Trail can look around and see how many more private properties have been developed right down against the edge of the refuge,” Robus said. “They’re all the way around the perimeter, pretty much.”
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