Tongass Rainforest Festival – Schedule (printable)
Last updated September 6, 2011
Advance Events
2011 Youth in the Rainforest Photography Share
September 1-30 entries due August, 30 @ 9pm
Petersburg Public Library
2011 Rainforest Festival Photography Show
September 2-15 entries due September 1, @ 5pm
Clausen Memorial Museum Mon-Sat.10am – 5pm
Show reception during festival – Sunday, September 11 4 - 6pm
Wednesday, September 7
12 – 1 Brown Bag Talk – “Characteristics and Uses of Southeast Alaska Wood”
City Council Chambers
Ty Cummins and Ross Nannauk
Thursday, September 8
10 – 12 Field Trip – “Identifying Muskeg and Forest Plants
Hungry Point Trail
Mary Clemens, USDA Forest Service
12 – 1 Brown Bag Talk – “Invasive plants: our love-hate relationship”
City Council Chambers
Patti Krosse, USDA Forest Service
1 – 3 Field Trip – “Invasive Plant Walk Around Petersburg”
Meet at ANB Hall, end at MountainView Manor
Patti Krosse and Mary Clemens, USDA Forest Service
3:30 – 5:30 Teen Event - "Share Your Stories! Learn to Collect Great Video Shots"
Meet in High School Commons (registration required by September 6)
Rosey Robards, Alaska Teen Media Institute and the USDA Forest Service
7 – 9 Keynote Address –
City Council Chambers
“The Forgotten Rainforests: temperate and boreal rainforests of the world”
Dr. Dominick DellaSala Geos Institute, Ashland, OR
Video/Slideshow –
“Life in the Kelp Forest: an exploration of Southeast Alaska's underwater world”
Jeff Meucci, Dive Tecnician, Alaska Department of Fish & Game
Friday, September 9
9 – 10 Field Trip – “Up Close and Personal in a Temperate Rainforest”
Meet at Sandy Beach Trail
Dr. Dominick DellaSala Geos Institute, Ashland, OR
12 – 2 Workshop – “Macrophotography – Close-up Nature Photography”
City Council Chambers
Bob Armstrong, author and photographer
2 – 3 Walk – “Aquatic Insects”
Meet at Nature Boardwalk by Elementary School
Bob Armstrong, author and photographer
2:30 – 5:00 Teen Event - "Share Your Stories! Learn to Collect Great Video Shots"
Meet in the High School Commons (continuation – no drop-ins)
Rosey Robards, Alaska Teen Media Institute and the USDA Forest Service
4 – 5 Kid’s Event – “Leafing Through Diversity”
Nature Boardwalk by Elementary School
Joni Johnson, Botanist and PHS Biology Teacher
7 – 9 Movie – “Green Fire” - about conservationist Aldo Leopold
Wright Auditorium
brought to you by the USFS International Year of Forests committee
Saturday, September 10
9 – 12 Teen Event - "Share Your Stories! Filming for the International Year of the Forest"
Meet at Sandy Beach Park Shelter II (continuation – no drop-ins)
Rosey Robards, Alaska Teen Media Institute and the USDA Forest Service
10 – 12 Workshop – “Creative Forest Fun for Kids and Adults”
Sandy Beach Shelter I (registration required by September 9)
Andie Thrams, forest artist from Coloma, CA
11 -12 Talk - “Changing Glaciers in Southeast Alaska”
City Council Chambers
Cathy Connor, University of Alaska Southeast
12 -1 Brown Bag Talk – “Gliding Across the Rainforest: flying squirrels (Glaucomys
sabrinus) and forest management in Southeast Alaska”
City Council Chambers
Dr. Elizabeth Flaherty, University of Wyoming
1 – 3 Walk – “Flying Squirrel Habitat on Mitkof Island”
Meet at ANB Hall to carpool
Dr. Elizabeth Flaherty, University of Wyoming
1 – 5 Field Trip – “LeConte Glacier Calving Retreat and 21st Century Changes to the Stikine Icefield”
Meet at S. Harbor Boat Ramp (advance registration with fee payment required)
Cathy Connor, University of Alaska Southeast
1:30 – 2:30 Kid’s Event – “Making Troll Houses& Fairy Gardens “
City Council Chambers
Public Library staff
3 – 5 Workshop – “Introduction to Painting Lichens and Mosses of the Tongass"
Sandy Beach Shelter I (for adults, advanced registration required by September 9)
Andie Thrams, forest artist from Coloma, CA
3 – 4 Kid’s Event - Rainforest Scavenger Hunt
Sandy BeachShelter II
Karisa Garner, USDA Forest Service
6:30 Rainforest Potluck & Wild Berry Cookoff
ANB Hall
featuring live music
Bring a dish from your wild foraging, garden, hunting, or fishing – or the grocery store!
Help us save resources by bringing your own plates and eating utensils, if possible.
Cookoff entries should be made from local wild berries and must be at the hall by 6:30.
Prizes for: Best jam or jelly, best baked good, most original use of edible berries and best kid’s creation
(16 and under)
Sunday, September 11
7 – 8 am Field Trip – “Birds of Mitkof Island”
Hungry Point Trail
Brad Hunter, birding enthusiast & Tana O’Leary, Wildlife Biologist
12 – 3 Field Trip – "Mitkof Mushroom Foray"
Meet at ANB Hall to car pool
Joe Stratman and Emil Tucker, mushroom hunters
3 – 5 Kid’s Event – “Making Fish Print T-shirts”
Sandy Beach Shelter I
Eric Castro, USDA Forest Service
4 – 6 2011 Rainforest Festival Photography Show Reception
Clausen Memorial Museum
bring finger foods to share
Saturday, September 17 – post festival bonus!
10 – 4 Workshop – “Watercolors in the Wild Forest”
Blind Slough Shelter (advance registration with fee payment required by Sept. 16)
Andie Thrams, forest artist from Coloma, CA