Here in Salem, OR we often get flocks of canadian geese flying overheard honking their little hearts out. Plus they like to land near one of the prisons where there's a grassy knoll and a stream and the felon families to feed them (but then when they try to cross the busy road nearby things can get ugly!) A well-known lightwave artist hails from Alaska: http://timothy.artistnation.com/ My wife used to live in Anchorage and my mom dragged myself and my sister up the Alaskan highway to Fairbanks from Portland, OR (before it was paved!) I almost lit a Yukon forest on fire with a burning marshmallow, but that's another story ...