FIELD NOTES   Make connections between wildlife and Alaska’s original residents. The Dena’ina Athabascan Kenaitze Indian Tribe offers visitors a glimpse of its culture, plant lore, wildlife use and other traditional ecological knowledge at a visitor center and a riverside boardwalk with many interpretive displays. Learn how Natives traditionally used the river and forest resources as their "grocery store," finding food, medicine, housing materials and tools in the region’s wild resources. See the remains of a house pit and replicas of a fish drying rack. Alaska Native reverence for salmon and other animals is shared through displays. Explore a mixed white spruce, birch and cottonwood forest and view the Kenai River from inside the woods. Bald eagles nest in cottonwoods just across the river, and pine siskins, darkeyed juncos, chickadees and other forest birds wander the trees. Moose are sometimes glimpsed in the parking lot, feeding on willows and alders.