March 1-2, 1919 & Late January Letters from Carl Zigrosser & George Chappell
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 March 1-2, 1919 and… Late January letters from Carl Zigrosser and George Chappell ABOVE -- This is a river otter. Kent often mentions these animals but calls them sea otters. There may have been some sea otters in the area, but they had been hunted out and were only protected in 1911 under a fur sea treaty. Some considered sea otters extinct by 1918. BELOW -- Notice that the river otter has paws front and back. A sea otter has flippers as rear feet and paws in the front. I took these photos at least 20 years ago by the lagoon on the west side of the Seward Highway across from the Seward Small Boat Harbor. I often see river otters during my trips to Fox Island, and I've had some interesting encounters with them along the trails. Capra photos. “Fifteen brand-new canvases hang from my ridge pole waiting for pictures to adorn them,” Kent writes in Wilderness to begi