UAS Housing Trail in Winter
You are in Juneau Alaska, looking down a paved pathway towards the main campus of the University of Alaska Southeast. The forest on both sides of the pathway is part of a temperate rainforest that extends throughout southeast Alaska. The most common trees in this rainforest are the Western Hemlock and the Sitka Spruce, which are often draped in mosses and lichens. This area, which is at sea level, enjoys a very mild climate, with average temperatures in the 30's in January and in the 60's in June. As a true rainforest, this forest sees either rain or snow about 220 days of the year, for a little more than 5 feet of precipitation annually. Travelers along this pathway should look for wildflowers, keep their ears open for songbirds...and of course, be on the look out for black bears!
