Nine students from the Klukwan School got their hands wet and their boots muddy as they did the work of professional entomologists Sept. 14 on a field trip to the Klondike Gold Rush Historic Park in Skagway.

The students donned waders and collected and analyzed hundreds of organisms in water bodies for the Dragonfly Mercury Project.

The project is an ongoing partnership between the University of Maine and the National Park Service that involves citizen…