USA ~ Totem Bight State Historica Park - Ketchikan - Alaska ~

... Beautiful view of a historical park dedicated to the totem pole history in the area... for both the Native Americans and settlers in Ketchikan, totem poles were a huge part of the culture... there are at least 14 restored and re-carved totems as well as a colorful Clan House... they are intricately detailed and hand carved, and are quite breathtaking... visitors can stroll through the rainforest to view the totems and learn the history of the area through these "silent storytellers," created to pass down stories from generation to generation.... a peaceful sanctuary paying homage to the indigenous Tlingit and Haida peoples of Southeast Alaska... Thanks a lot Ravindra!【ツ】

Photo: Michael M. Anderson
Totem Bight State Historical Park is a 13 ha state park sheltered in a lush, temperate rainforest rich in Native history and art, beaches with waterfront views, and indigenous plants and animals.

With the growth of non-Native settlements in Southeast Alaska in the early 1900's, and the decline of a barter economy, Natives moved to communities where work was available. The villages and totem poles they left behind were soon overgrown by forests and eroded by weather. In 1938 the U.S. Forest Services began a program aimed at salvaging and reconstructing these large cedar monuments. By using Civilian Conservation Corps funds to hire skilled carvers from among the older Natives, two things took place: young artisans learned the art of carving totem poles, and totems which had been left to rot in the woods were either repaired or duplicated.

 

Stamps:

Sailboats 

(Issued 22-01-2023)
 

USA ~ Denali National Park - Alaska ~

... Lovely view of an Alaskan moose peeking around a spruce tree...Denali is Alaska's most well known national park, attracting nearly half a million visitors every year... it offers some of the most majestic landscapes and wildlife sightings with only one single road running through the middle... the only national park patrolled in winter by dog sled... Thanks a lot Arnold!!【ツ】

© Photo: Mark Kelley
Denali National Park covers just over six million acres, or 9,492 square miles, inclusive the park, wilderness and preserve lands, and Mount Denali, North America’s highest point at 20,310 feet above sea level. At 6 million acres it is bigger than Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon combined.

Denali is known for its iconic mammal species, including black and grizzly bears, wolves, moose, caribou, and Dall's sheep. The park has also 169 species of birds identified in the park, including golden and bald eagles.

Glaciers cover a million acres or one-sixth of the park. "Hundreds of unnamed glaciers and at least 40 named glaciers flow from heights as high as 19,000 feet and descend to elevations as low as 800 feet above sea level,"

Stamps:

Fruit Definitives - Grapes
(Issued 24-02-2017)

American Design - Navajo Jewelry
(Issued 12- 05-2007)

2X History of Hockey - Joint Issue with Canada
(Issue 20-10-2017)

USA ~Glacier Bay National Park-Alaska-UNESCO

...A spectacular sight...and a wonderful new whale card for my collection... Many Thanks Edvard!!

Photos by Meldren Anderson and Trevor Kirschhoff Backside card: A humpback whale traverses the icy waters of Glacier Bay.
Glacier Bay is a Humpback Whale sanctuary. In the park's waters, Humpback Whales benefit from some of the strongest protections found anywhere on our planet.

The marine wilderness of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve includes tidewater glaciers, snow-capped mountain ranges, ocean coastlines, deep fjords, freshwater rivers and lakes.

When Captain George Vancouver surveyed Southeast Alaska in 1794, the wall of ice that filled the bay was (at its greatest extent) 100 miles long, 20 miles wide, and 4,000 feet thick. Just 250 years later, this same ice has retreated 65 miles, the fastest glacial retreat on record...

Set of lovely stamps with special National Park's cancellation!

 At nearly all of the 401 American National Park units (and many of the National Park Service's affiliated areas), one or more National Park Passport Stamps (cancellation stamps) can be acquired at no cost at park visitor centers and ranger stations.

USA ~Alaska-Northern Lights~

My second "Aurora Borealis" this week...This view is even more amazing,the colour is a luminous green and with that moon and mountains, just wonderful!!
I do wish I can have the opportunity to witness the amazing Northern Lights someday!
Nice stamps too.

The phenomenon of aurora is an interaction between the Earth's magnetic field and solar wind.

There have been many myths about the Northern Lights.The people of Norway thought the lights were dead warriors fighting.The Vikings thought they were female messengers of the God Odin, to mark those to be killed in battle. The people of Laps and Finland believed they were messangers of God. The Nothern Lights were one of the last unsloved mysteries of the natural world!