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Refuge Notebook: What’s your number? Mine is 5
Have you ever considered how many salmon streams you cross on your daily drive to work, school or…
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Tangled Up in Blue: Clearing my head
I set out for a run in the afternoon to clear my head. It was this past Wednesday,…
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Refuge Notebook: A refuge manager’s perspective on 2020
A friend and colleague recently sent me a list of “things to consider” as 2020 drew to a…
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Out of the Office: Good riddance
When I first saw my turn in the rotating schedule for writing this column would fall on New…
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State seeks proposals for local campground management
State Parks extends deadline for bids to provide boat launch service at Deep Creek, Anchor River
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Out of the Office: More questions than answers
The only place life makes sense anymore is the outdoors.
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Northern Hawk Owls frequent Swan Lake Fire burn
In a gliding dive it swooped down from atop an aspen and disappeared, plunging into the fresh snow…
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Refuge Notebook: Crawfish to Christmas trees
My rubber knee boots provided little traction as I slowly slid down the mucky side of the bank…
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Fishery council closes federal waters in Cook Inlet to commercial salmon fishing
Fishermen, processors, elected officials warn of devastation to the fishery.
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Refuge Notebook: Arsenic in murder and nature
Arsenic, though often difficult to detect, is hard to ignore. As the 20th most common element in the…
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Cook Inlet salmon fishery issue to be decided by North Pacific Fishery Management Council
Fishermen, processors take issue with option to close waters to commercial fishing
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Tangled Up in Blue: Tangled up in turkey
More prevalent than pumpkin pie this holiday season is the refrain, “Are you upset you can’t travel to…
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Refuge Notebook: Visitors to Katmai and Lake Clark National Parks rely on Kenai Peninsula services
Two national park and preserve areas, Lake Clark and Katmai, located just across Cook Inlet from the Kenai…
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Refuge Notebook: The verge of winter
As the daylight hours seem to slip away, the temperatures are slowly getting lower and the silky flowing…
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Tangled Up in Blue: Grooming the trail
During my first winter spent cross-country skiing in Soldotna, I often found myself struggling to glide along the…
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Refuge Notebook: Incident Command System adapts to record-setting wildfires
The August Complex Fire of 2020 on the Mendocino National Forest in northern California is officially the state’s…
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Refuge Notebook: Finding refuge in the forest
As a park ranger for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, I get to spend a lot of time…
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Out of the Office: Two weeks
I’ve been thinking a lot about the 1986 film “The Money Pit” lately.
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Tangled Up in Blue: I voted
I feel like I’ve been talking about voting for weeks, months … maybe more like 1,451 days, but…