Alaska Pics 2010

[NT'sGirl]

Behind the lodge about a half mile, beaver activity.

YOU STOLE MY PICTURE! I love that place

[NT'sGirl]

Some very happy hunters.

That was fun having a paraplegic out 300 miles from town modified the whole camp so he could be out there
and he got his moose!

[Robert A Whit]

This was a hell of a big slug... more rainforest critters.

Probably a Banana slug. We have them in the SF Bay Area too. In the redwoods mostly.

[NT'sGirl]

Probably a Banana slug. We have them in the SF Bay Area too. In the redwoods mostly.

Yes but they are rarely yellow here

[Robert A Whit]

I am still looking at the pictures that NTs girl dug up.

Thanks NT for the photos and to his girl, thanks for making them evident.

[Robert A Whit]

Originally Posted by Robert A Whit
Probably a Banana slug. We have them in the SF Bay Area too. In the redwoods mostly.

Yes but they are rarely yellow here

I probably am wrong since you mentioned the color.

[NT'sGirl]

I probably am wrong since you mentioned the color.

no they range from blue/green to brown and of course the signature yellow

But it is a banana slug

[Robert A Whit]

That photo perhaps is a Banana slug since I found out that they also inhabit some of Alaska. Not all are bright yellow.

Read this. (Wikipedia is the source)

Ariolimax columbianus is native to the forest floors along North America's Pacific coastal coniferous rainforest belt (including redwood forests) which stretches from Southeastern Alaska to Santa Cruz, California.
Several discontinuous populations do also occur in forested slopes of the coastal and traverse mountain ranges south of Santa Cruz as far south as Ventura County, with a tiny, isolated population located in Palomar Mountain State Park within the Palomar Mountain Range in San Diego County, California. The Palomar Mountains have lush Sierra Nevada-like coniferous forests and black oak woodlands unlike the surrounding semiarid lands of inland San Diego County and mark the southernmost population of banana slugs. The slugs were rediscovered several years ago along Doane Creek, part of the Lower Doane Valley/Lower French Trail. This population is believed to be a relict from the Pleistocene epoch when the climate was cooler and wetter.
Small, isolated populations also occur east of the Pacific Coast such as in the inland coniferous rainforests of British Columbia's Columbia Mountains (interior wet-belt), just west of the Canadian Rockies, and have been seen at lower elevations near creeks and damp areas of Mount Revelstoke National Park. Small populations of banana slugs have also been seen along creek and damp areas of the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains to the north of Yosemite National Park in California. Slug densities in these outlying areas in the Columbia Mountains, Sierra Nevada Mountains, and areas south of Santa Cruz are low compared to densities in the coastal coniferous rainforest belt and are rather restricted to damp areas near creeks, ravines, and gullies.^[7] This population is probably also a relict from the Pleistocene epoch.