tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post2553510398118062422..comments2024-03-29T05:02:01.215+05:30Comments on Amusing Planet: America's Smallest "National Forest" in AdakKaushik Patowaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15000427721236718033noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post-90931436089350055922021-01-24T02:36:45.475+05:302021-01-24T02:36:45.475+05:30Hey Mark,
Responding to your Feb, 12, 2018 email a...Hey Mark,<br />Responding to your Feb, 12, 2018 email about the thousand Sitka spruce seedlings and their ending.<br />You brought them in during May 1987.<br />Thirty-three of them thrived.<br /><br />I was aboard the USS Lipan ATF 85 in Adak in the spring of 1957.<br />I saw the "forest" and thought the trees were small but had no idea of their history. I'm writing a piece about them and your information is very helpful.<br />Some people called the trees "pines." I thought they were Sitka spruce.<br />No one knew how the trees got to Adak. Too bad more people can't read your email.<br /><br />In the early 1990s, the Adak Kiwanis Club decorated the forest with lights, after quite a bit of effort. I am in touch with the current city manager,<br />Layton Lockett, who assures me Adak has big plans for that forest in 2021.<br /><br />What does a "P-3C Update III" do?<br /><br />I hope this goes out.<br />John J.<br /><br />Jlesjackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09623547701363053506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post-82839502102652778272018-02-12T02:11:13.879+05:302018-02-12T02:11:13.879+05:30In May of 1987 as a Patrol Plane Commander flying ...In May of 1987 as a Patrol Plane Commander flying the Navy’s P-3C Update III out of Moffett Field, California I was tasked to return the Adak Commanding Officer to his command and to re-populate the Adak National Forest. Evidently just two months prior an unknown number of vandals had chopped all the original trees down - at least that as what we were told. We took off from Moffett Field, stopped in Whidbey Island for four forestry personnel and one thousand Sitka spruce seedlings grown near the summit of Mt. Lassen and continued to Adak. We offloaded the personnel and the trees, spent a couple of days flying area training flights and returned to Moffett. As I never made it back to Adak (other than a brief stopover on the way to a Misawa, Japan deployment) I always wondered if those trees thrived? Can anyone enlighten me?Mark Gulohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09675903986245601917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post-69847117321267617482016-12-24T23:55:36.318+05:302016-12-24T23:55:36.318+05:30I was stationed at the NavComSta Adak in 1968-1969...I was stationed at the NavComSta Adak in 1968-1969. At that time, the trees were only 4 or 5 feet tall. We had dogs there and when they died, they were buried behind the forest. I once asked someone where the trees came from, and was told that the Coast Guard brought them. If that's true, it must have been after all but one of the original trees died.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post-33294407669238575162015-10-18T11:32:25.374+05:302015-10-18T11:32:25.374+05:30Amazing, how they can grow there ??Amazing, how they can grow there ??Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03025544366584813622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post-71254339221047953252015-10-16T19:15:30.036+05:302015-10-16T19:15:30.036+05:30"one of the southernmost island of the United..."one of the southernmost island of the United States"?<br />Really.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com